Dolls Quotes - Page 2

• Little girls love dolls. They just don't love dolls clothes

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Girl, Parenting, Clothes

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• When you see a guy reach for stars in the sky You can bet that he's doing it for some doll.

  Frank Loesser

  Stars, Sky, Guy

  Frank Loesser (1982). “The Guys and dolls book”

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• I used to tiptoe up to my bedroom door and leap into my room in an attempt to surprise my dolls in the midst of some kind of action. Unfortunately, they were always too quick for me. I'm still disappointed about that.

  Marion Dane Bauer

  Doors, Rooms, Tiptoes

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• A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.

  Alan Beck

  Girl, Mom And Daughter, Motherhood

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• We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

  F. H. Bradley

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Girl

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, No. 23, 1930.

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• Little girls love dolls. They just don't love doll clothes. We've got four thousand dolls and ain't one of them got a stitch of clothes on.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!

  Emma Thompson

  Daughter, Mother, Morning

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• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.

  Elle Fanning

  Family, Dog, Baby

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• I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

  David Byrne

  Wanted

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• You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.

  Cate Blanchett

  Children, Barbie Dolls, Scary

  "11 Amazing Quotes From Cate Blanchett". Marie Claire, November 13, 2014.

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• Now every girl is expected to have: Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits. The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.

  Tina Fey

  Girl, Sarcastic, Athlete

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

  Linda Evans

  Sister, Mom, Mother

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• The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Dream, Becoming Who You Are, Ugly Duckling

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• I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.

  Ruth Handler

  Successful, Barbie Dolls, Barbie

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• A living doll, everywhere you look.
  It can sew, it can cook,
  It can talk, talk, talk. . . .
  My boy, it's your last resort.
  Will you marry it, marry it, marry it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Boys, Looks, Lasts

  'The Applicant' (1966)

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• You know you've made it when you can dye your hair blue.

  Demi Lovato

  Hair, Blue, Barbie Dolls

  "Allure Beauty Diaries: Demi Lovato Talks Hair, Makeup, and X Factor Beauty". Interview With Catherine Quinn O'neill, www.allure.com. August 10, 2012.

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• I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies

  John Galliano

  Body

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• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  Dakota Fanning

  Sister, Baby, Home

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• Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and all the dolls are at the table. Listen. It's that simple.

  Anne Lamott

  Character, Writing, Simple

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.53, Anchor

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• The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued like the Russian ruble or Argentine peso;to work as bellhops, as bar hostesses, as garbage collectors, as maids. The city was a cliff and they were its stampeding lemmings. At the foot of the cliff was the valley of the broken dolls.

  Salman Rushdie

  Beautiful, Powerful, Feet

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• When I was 12 years old, I read Nancy Drew mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys.

  Joyce Maynard

  Girl, Horse, Book

  "Coming of Age with Judy Blume". www.nytimes.com. December 3, 1978.

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• Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

  Zoe Saldana

  Growing Up, Doctors, Barbie Dolls

  "Zoe Saldana's Star Turn". Interview with Monica Corcoran, www.womenshealthmag.com. April 13, 2009.

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• I will try to make a doll of Oksana with a little dog.

  Oksana Baiul

  Sports, Dog, Trying

  The Golden Skate Interview, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• I'm a film doll. But I'm enjoying it. So I'm gonna keep doing it.

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Film, Enjoy

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• Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Mean, People, Wish

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