Dolls Quotes - Page 3

• The doll had an adult shaped body, the thing that I had been trying to describe for years, and our guys said it couldn't be done.

  Ruth Handler

  Years, Guy, Trying

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• I write simply because I hear voices of people in my head who won't give me peace until I convey their stories to the rest of the world. Seriously. They've always been with me. While other girls played with dolls, and my brothers with Hot Wheels, I was busy traveling through space or traipsing through graveyards with my imaginary playmates.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Brother, Writing

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• Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.

  Grover Norquist

  Dresses, Married, Kind

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• The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.

  Bill Watterson

  Reality, Issues, Special

  Bill Watterson (1995). “The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book”, p.11, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.

  Emma Watson

  Quirky, Collections, Places I've Been

  "Emma Watson". www.seventeen.com. December 12, 2007.

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• My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.

  Steven Morrissey

  New York, Memorable, People

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

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• In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.

  Conan O'Brien

  Blow, Men, Virginia

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• When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

  Mira Sorvino

  Mother, Party, Play

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• I remember the special effects people had fun making a little doll that looked like me - which is not so easy - and it had to move along the floor.

  Herbert Lom

  Fun, Moving, People

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

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• I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by [Elia] Kazan and was called Baby Doll.

  Eli Wallach

  Baby, Years, Wife

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

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• There's now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored that they asked you to do a voice.

  Joe Mantegna

  Voice, Cracks, Euthanasia

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• I did a picture for the First Barbie doll box.

  Heather O'Rourke

  Barbie Dolls, Firsts, Boxes

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• I'm not evil, but some people are freaked out by a living doll.

  Josh Ryan Evans

  People, Evil

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• American sex shops are the most bizarre. They sell these inflatable dolls, but they also sell just the head -- supposedly for people to drive along the highway with.

  Billy Connolly

  Sex, People, Bizarre

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• I don't doll myself up for TV because I want people to accept me for who I am.

  John Cena

  Who I Am, People, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world's best mom, and so far I've done it.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Girl, Mom, Thinking

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• When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls - I'd be the crazy diva Barbie and she'd be the homeless Barbie.

  Jordana Brewster

  Crazy, Character, Barbie Dolls

  "Jordana Brewster: Coming to Attention". Interview with Dennis Hensley, movieline.com. January 1, 2001.

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• I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches.

  Sylvia Plath

  Here I Am, Body, Sickness

  Sylvia Plath (2012). “Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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• Popularity is for dolls.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Popularity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.820, Modern Library

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• In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in an attic. I wanted to polish him with kisses, clean him up, make him evevn more radiant than he was. "That's what you always want," he said softly... "When you found me under Les Innocents," he said, "you wanted to bathe me with perfume and dress me in velvevt with great embroidered sleeves." "Yes," I said, "and comb your hair, your beautiful russet hair." My tone was angry. "You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.

  Anne Rice

  Beautiful, Children, Eye

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• It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a doll inside our head, the only woman who is always available in fact, the only one we shall ever possess, whom the arbitrary nature of memory, almost as absolute as that of the imagination, may have made as different from the real woman as the real Balbec had been from the Balbec I imagined- a dummy creation that little by little, to our own detriment, we shall force the real woman to resemble.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Real, Imagination

  Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast (2004). “The Guermantes Way”, Viking Press

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• I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together

  Tennessee Williams

  Childhood, Together, Saws

  Tennessee Williams (1994). “Collected Stories”, p.274, New Directions Publishing

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• I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.

  David Walliams

  Uncles, Dad, Japan

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.

  Indira Gandhi

  Baby, Men, Prison

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

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• Just because I cut the heads off dolls doesn't mean I hate babies, I just hate dolls.

  Alice Cooper

  Baby, Hate, Mean

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