Costumes Quotes - Page 2

• In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.

  Molly Parker

  Things In Life, People, Who We Are

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• You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.

  Cesare Pavese

  Party, Yesterday, Useless

  Cesare Pavese, Geoffrey Brock (2002). “Disaffections: complete poems 1930-1950”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• Get my swan costume ready.

  Anna Pavlova

  Swans, Ballet, Dying

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• If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

  Douglas Coupland

  Courage, Halloween, Years

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

  Lucy Liu

  Character, Language

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• I've always wanted to be Wonder Woman, of course. She had the greatest costume.

  Kelly Hu

  Wonder Woman, Wanted, Courses

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• Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Squash

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• I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

  Gary Cole

  Makeup, Singing, My Own

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• You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Attitude, Failure

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• This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.

  Christina Ricci

  Looks, Maniacs, Homicidal

  "Fictional character: Wednesday". "The Addams Family", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Change, Death, Character

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• It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.

  Julius Wellhausen

  Success, Trying, Mosaics

  Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.

  Camille Claudel

  Thank You, Two, President

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• It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn't know I was doing it.

  Peter Mayhew

  Character, Half, Rehearsal

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• I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.

  Florence Welch

  Clothes, Style, Strange

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• I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

  Fred Frith

  Football, Laughing So Hard, France

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• I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!

  Dirk Benedict

  Fit, Stills, I Can

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• People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.

  Kate Adie

  War, Team, People

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• I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there's something great about loving what you love and not caring if it's unpopular.

  Kristen Bell

  Stars, War, Character

  "A Conversation with Kristen Bell". Interview with Celeste Perron, www.womenshealthmag.com. April 8, 2008.

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• I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?'

  Drew Carey

  Halloween, Thinking, Mirrors

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• No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Drama, People, Matter

  Los Angeles Magazine, Volume 44, No. 11, November 1999.

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• I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them.

  Joan Severance

  Hurt, People, Scare

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily.

  Ronnie Corbett

  Nice, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Needs, Matter

  "Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is a Terrible Defense of Minor Privacy Violations" by Natalie Shoemaker, bigthink.com.

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• Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.

  Mary Schmich

  Style, Dresses, Wake Up

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