Mask Quotes - Page 35

• I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin.

  Ron Perlman

  Autumn, Thinking, Careers

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• There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

  Jerome Bruner

  Art, Real, Effort

  Jerome Seymour Bruner (1979). “On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand”, p.59, Harvard University Press

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• Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Kids, Oxygen, Care

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• We [people] love ourselves with conditions. We need opinions, we need approval, we create an image of ourselves that is not what we are. This how we lose our authenticity and create masks - how we become "domesticated."

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  People, Approval, Needs

  Source: www.awaken.com

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• Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Awards, Deserving It, Expression

  Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November, 2004.

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• In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation.

  Terence McKenna

  Democratic Ideals, People, Might

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• The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Criminals, World, Predator

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• Relief, or redistribution of income, voluntary or coerced, is never the true solution of poverty, but at best a makeshift, which may mask the disease and mitigate the pain, but provides no basic cure.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Pain, Relief, Income

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• When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask."

  Edwidge Danticat

  Glasses, People, Littles

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

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• I think I'm not in this work to not look at life as it is. I'm not in it to say, "I want to wear a mask and escape," you know. I want to know what's happening in the world, and I want to have it touch me in a way that I can do something, my little part like that, and have it somehow translate.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Looks, World

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• We fell in love with different people. Looking back, we might have done it in a different order, but we got invested. We really wanted to do the flashbacks because we wanted to explore who these women were on the outside versus the inside, and get a fuller picture of the masks we wear.

  Jenji Kohan

  Order, People, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Black Mask is new money. He's rich. He's very, very powerful. He's made it. He's known for being brutal and sadistic. And particularly at this point in the Arkham franchise he has enormous resources. He is the number one gang leader in Gotham. And has easily the most power in the city.

  Eric Holmes

  Powerful, Cities, Numbers

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• We cannot let colorblindness become myopia which masks the reality that many "created equal" have been treated within our lifetimes as inferior both by the law and by their fellow citizens.

  William J. Brennan

  Reality, Law, Citizens

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• Suicide attacks are the actions of losers who have nothing left to lose. In this case, Islam serves as a mask, a cover for desperation and nihilism, but not for religion.

  Walter Kasper

  Suicide, Islam, Nihilism

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.

  Carlos Santana

  Kissing, Vegas, Musician

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

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• If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.

  Lance Armstrong

  Order, Giving, Drug

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• Sometimes we mask ourselves to further reveal ourselves, and it's always been connected to me with being a writer: We tell lies to tell a greater truth. The story is a mask; the characters you create are masks. That appeals to me. Aside from that, too, in the carnival the masks were beautiful, and offered a vision of Haitian creativity.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Beautiful, Lying, Creativity

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

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• I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.

  Corey Stoll

  Distance, Character, Mustache

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• I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

  John Fowles

  Effort, Green, Cynicism

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

  Lucretius

  Heart, Adversity, Reality

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1855.

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• I was a dumpy teenager. My mum was a model and was all about looks, so I rebelled by going goth. It took me years of peeling back the onion to finally stop using make-up as a mask and feel comfortable in my skin.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Teenager, Years, Skins

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• I really believe that women have much easier access to their souls than men do. Because as men we're taught to wear masks, to drown out our emotions in competition and making money. Now women are being forced to do that too. But I admire their capacity to bear their spirituality so much more deeply than men.

  John Rzeznik

  Believe, Men, Competition

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• Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.

  Stephen Harper

  Country, Canada, Economy

  "National Post" Newspaper, December 8, 2000.

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• The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the walls of the place, which are the mask, and the perception, are reluctant to give over to the voices of the individuals. Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance. Part of the identity of a place is the tension between those in the margins, and those in the center, and they all live behind the walls which wear the tradition.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Wall, Distance, Fighting

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• And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my pillow behind my head, and having a sip of that champagne, and just as I was bringing down and adjusting my Thai purple sleep mask, I had an inkling. I had a flash. I suddenly thought I knew what it was that had killed Marilyn Monroe.

  Spalding Gray

  Sleep, Climbing, Class

  "Fictional character: Spalding Gray". "Swimming to Cambodia", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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