Dolls Quotes - Page 10

• As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Reflection, Mirrors, Identity

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.17, Penguin

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• And what did you do last night, Dexter? Oh, I played with my dolls while a friend chopped up my sister.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Night, Lasts, My Sister

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.189, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• No one had ever said anything like that to Evie. Her parents always wanted to advise or instruct or command. They were good people, but they needed the world to bend to them, to fit into their order of things. Evie had never really quite fit, and when she tried, she’d just pop back out, like a doll squeezed into a too-small box.

  Libba Bray

  Order, People, Parent

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• seven times down eight times up like the Daruma doll

  Chris Bradford

  Don't Give Up, Eight, Never Giving Up

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• Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Firsts, Open Your Heart

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• Evil is not interesting. What is it, chopping off someone's head? We used to do that as kids, you know, you tear up paper dolls and stuff. I know everyone's done it in the history of the world, but maybe everybody was dumb and they were just looking for something interesting to do. What's really interesting and hard is being good.

  Toni Morrison

  Kids, Evil, Interesting

  Source: theharvardadvocate.com

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• I really liked Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls and a couple of others, but with these kinds of movies the best part is the 'talking about it over a beer afterwards' bit - and once is kind of enough.

  Bent Saether

  Couple, Beer, Talking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began with a friend giving me a rabbit doll - forgive me, Edward, for using that word; he doesn't like "doll" - for Christmas. I said, "Oh, he's lovely, what's his name?" And she said, "Edward." And a few days after I received the rabbit, who was dressed very handsomely in Edwardian kind of clothes, I saw him stripped of his finery and face down on the bottom of the ocean floor. Why? I don't know. But that's where his story began in my head.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Ocean, Journey, Names

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It was so complex [in "Trolls"] that the technical team had to build a new program. It was about rendering and manipulating that weird hair. We also wanted to break the mold of what what we thought the princess was about...we wanted to keep her troll 'look' - the stumpy legs, an ugly/cute look, it was all inspired from the doll.

  Walt Dohrn

  Cute, Team, Princess

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I call it the 'doll house,' ... It's absolutely gorgeous, especially at this time of year. It's a crisp sky and, you know, if we wake up on a clear morning, and then I take little Norm out for a walk, have a little coffee on the deck.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Morning, Coffee, Years

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• Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months old. Seeing how strong a feeling of jealousy is in dogs, it would probably be exhibited by infants at any earlier age than just specified if they were tried in a fitting manner

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Strong, Emotional

  Charles Darwin “Charles Darwin: An Anthology”, Transaction Publishers

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• My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

  Milla Jovovich

  Daughter, Mother, Book

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• We felt like the Taliban saw us as little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God wanted us to be like that He wouldn't have made us all different.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Powerful, Different, Littles

  Malala Yousafzai (2013). “I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)”, p.121, Hachette UK

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• I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.

  Emma Watson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Nice

  "10 Times Emma Watson Ruled At Life" by Ariel Nagi, www.seventeen.com. November 19, 2014.

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• How do I transform and be believable as Krogstad in "A Doll's House" or Sir Peter Teazle in "A School for Scandal".

  Mahershala Ali

  School, House, Scandal

  "In 'Moonlight,' Actor Mahershala Ali Found Characters He Recognized". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 16, 2017.

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• They [Barnes Theatre Club] were a very good group, and for some reason when I finished the backstage thing, I just decided to that I should try to act. So I auditioned for Guys and Dolls and got a little tiny part as some Cuban dancer or something and then in the next play I got the lead part, and then I got my agent. So I owe everything to that little club.

  Robert Pattinson

  Play, Careers, Dancer

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

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• I don't like being under someone elses thumb. I'm very supportive of other female artists, especially those trying to make their own statement... trying to do what they want instead of being someone else's Barbie doll.

  Irene Cara

  Artist, Barbie Dolls, Supportive

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• You know, for the record, I hate to take orders. But! I realize I'm in over my head. You have no idea how much I hate all this supernatural garbage. So I'm willing to listen to you, but you better start acting like I'm a person and not some mindless blow-up doll. (Amanda)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, Blow, Order

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.67, St. Martin's Griffin

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• With boys I climbed trees, ran races, and wrestled. I had no complexes of envy or inferiority toward boys. At the same time, however, I liked dolls.

  Indira Gandhi

  Boys, Race, Envy

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• Can a controlled experiment explain why people like Kewpie dolls in one year, Beanie Babies in another, and American Girl dolls this year? Yet social scientists are asked to answer analogous questions. We economists and perhaps psychologists shouldn't overreact to the derision. That is, we shouldn't try to overlay a false sense of precision on our admittedly squooshy work.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Girl, Baby, Years

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• There's a reason that girls cut off all their Barbie doll's hair and dye it and do things like that. I destroyed my Barbie dolls, and I know other girls did as well. And that's kind of the way they see kids movies and child actors in kids movies, as something that you've moved on from. It's babyish.

  Mara Wilson

  Girl, Children, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top. My mama, she told me don't worry about your size. She says boys like a little more booty to hold at night. Yeah I won't be no stick figure silicone Barbie doll, so if that's what you're into then go ahead and move along.

  Meghan Trainor

  Moving, Boys, Night

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• I used to be the youngest person on the set [of Bored To Death]. Now I'm very often the oldest person on the set. I feel lucky about that, to be honest. Lena [Dunham], by the way is a doll to me. So much fun to work with and really open.

  Richard Masur

  Fun, Bored, Lucky

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Our kids haven't any airs about them. I don't like posh kids who don't like dirty dolls or expect a chauffeur every time they go out.

  Linda McCartney

  Dirty, Kids, Air

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• When people think about this religion, they'll say "voodoo" this and "voodoo" that in the way the Hollywood movies show it: the sticking of pins in dolls. It's very different than Vodou - which is a religion that comes to Haiti from our ancestors in Africa. I want to differentiate it from the stereotypical, sensationalized view that we see of the religion.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Thinking, Views, People

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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