Dolls Quotes - Page 7

• I always try so hard to find a male doll and shoot a male doll, and it always kind of implodes. Whenever I use men, they're so scary and so dark, and I can never find this sort of lightness or this place between doll and human that I find with female dolls.

  Laurie Simmons

  Dark, Men, Scary

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The challenge has always been to wrest emotion out of a [doll's] face that we think of as only having one emotion. It's moving a light, moving my camera; it's just this mental investment that I make, and suddenly, everything changes. Parenthetically, I have to say, I don't particularly like dolls, nor have I ever liked them. That's something I really wanted to get out there right away.

  Laurie Simmons

  Moving, Thinking, Light

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had a husband who, I'm convinced, was an undiagnosed manic depressive. He didn't treat me as if I had a brain - I was just this beautiful little doll he could show off.

  Britt Ekland

  Beautiful, Husband, Brain

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• I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.

  Taylor Momsen

  Looks, Kind, Outfits

  "Taylor Momsen: ‘I Still Wear Pieces From When I Was In F**king Middle School’". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2010.

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• My daughter's all grown up now compared to what she was, but I used to say, I’ve got to have my horse to where if she’s leading my horse somewhere, and she’s got a big armload of Barbies and drops something out of her hand, that son of a buck ought to stop and respect her while she’s gathering up all her dolls and not to walk on her or take advantage of her. And if I’ve done my work right, by gosh, that’s what they’ll do.

  Buck Brannaman

  Daughter, Horse, Son

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• If sex were all, then every trembling hand
  Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.

  Wallace Stevens

  Sex, Hands, Trembling

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.74, Vintage

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• We’re every age at once and tucked inside ourselves like Russian nesting dolls. My mother is an 8 year old girl. My grandson is a 74 year old retiree whose kidneys just failed. And that’s the glue between me and you. That’s the screws and nails. We live in a house made of each other and if that sounds strange that’s because it is.

  George Watsky

  Girl, Mother, Years

  Song: Tiny Glowing Screens, Part 2, Album: Cardboard Castles, 2013

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• Never mind that to me, the face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and low-set ears, a boy with a Chinese doll face perpetually lit by a harelipped smile. Never mind any of those things. Because history isn't easy to overcome. Neither is religion. In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was ever going to change that. Nothing.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Boys, Chinese, Mind

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.31, Penguin

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• The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain dolls from China,which have made men and women weepfor centuries, even those have changed now.What used to be pain is a lovely benchwhere we can rest under the roses.A left hand has become a right.A dark wall, a window.A cushion in a shoe heel,the leader of the community!Now silence. What we sayis poison to someand nourishing to others.What we say is a ripe fig,but not every bird that flieseats figs.

  Rumi

  Love, Pain, Wall

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• For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that - maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want.

  Elle Fanning

  Love, Baby, School

  "Elle Fanning Spills Her Biggest Fashion Risk!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. December 29, 2011.

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• I used to do my own make-up. I used to have this doll that had those big eyelashes on the top and bottom, and I think I copied her when I was doing my eyes, putting false eyelashes on the bottom as well as the top. So I came up with that look myself.

  Twiggy

  Eye, Thinking, Looks

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• My signature look is an eighties baby doll dress, combat boots with colorful socks sticking out, and then mounds of jewelry. I love silver and turquoise. I go to Montana every winter, so I hunt around for cool pieces there.

  Zoey Deutch

  Baby, Winter, Signatures

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• Hey!" I exclaimed, seeing the total. "They're charging me retail. Glenn!" I complained. "They can't do that." I shook it at him. "I shouldn't have to pay retail!" "What did you expect? You can keep that. It's your copy." I sat back in a huff and shoved it in my bag with my sticky scarf as he typed his slow, painful way through my report. "Where's this human compassion I keep hearing about?" "That's it, baby doll," he said, voice smoother than usual. He was laughing at me.

  Kim Harrison

  Baby, Compassion, Voice

  Kim Harrison (2013). “Black Magic Sanction”, p.35, HarperCollins UK

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• For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind us, for the people we leave behind, the tiny-doll selves that get stored away and ultimately buried.

  Lauren Oliver

  Sadness, Self, People

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• SEASONS PASSED, FALL AND WINTER and spring and summer. Leaves blew in through the open door of Lucius Clarke’s shop, and rain, and the green outrageous hopeful light of spring. People came and went, grandmothers and doll collectors and little girls with their mothers. Edward Tulane waited. The seasons turned into years. Edward Tulane waited. He repeated the old doll’s words over and over until they wore a smooth groove of hope in his brain: Someone will come; someone will come for you.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Summer, Girl, Mother

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.446, Candlewick Press

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• She hated their new nickname. It made them sound like deranged Barbie dolls.

  Sara Shepard

  Barbie Dolls, Sound, Nicknames

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• Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

  Harper Lee

  Good Luck, Tkam, Two

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.36, Infobase Publishing

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• Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Children, Race

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• As a young child I had Santa and Jesus all mixed up. I could identify Coke or Pepsi with just one sip, but I could not tell you for sure why they strapped Santa to a cross. Had he missed a house? Had a good little girl somewhere in the world not received the doll he'd promised her, making the father angry?

  Augusten Burroughs

  Girl, Jesus, Children

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.13, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Alice was scrutinizing my boring jeans-and-a-T-shirt outfit in a way that made me self-conscious. Probably plotting another makeover. I sighed. My indifferent attitude to fashion was a constant thorn in her side. If I'd allow it, she'd love to dress me everyday―perhaps several times a day―like some oversized three-dimensional paper doll.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fashion, Attitude, Self

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.' Free to be, if you were a girl—doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if you’re a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, that’s OK too. That notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents, whatever they may be, and not be held back by artificial barriers—manmade barriers, certainly not heaven sent.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Girl, Song, Teaching

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• Show me on the doll where Fun is a rock band.

  Corey Taylor

  Fun, Rocks, Band

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• I should say I am far more cleverer than any of the people who put me here. As a matter of fact, I could leave any time I wanted. It's only a doll house after all. Anyway, I don't mind. I like dolls. Particularly the live ones.

  Grant Morrison

  People, House, Mind

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• I was scared of the dark. Ohhhh, I'd do anything not to have to sleep on my own. I'd get in bed and cover myself with dolls and teddy bears.

  Peta Wilson

  Sleep, Dark, Bed

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• He liked women with little butts and big tits? Someone had played with one too many barbie dolls as a kid.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Kids, Barbie Dolls, Littles

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Stolen”, p.205, Vintage Canada

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