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«It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.»
«Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.»
«I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.»
Author: Francois Rabelais | Keywords: curtain
«God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve»
«He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!»
«Heaven's ebon vault, studded with stars unutterably bright, through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, seems like a canopy which love has spread to curtain her sleeping world»
«From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.»
«I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.»
«My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.»
Author: T.S. Eliot (Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet) | About: Trouble | Keywords: curtain, up and down
«From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.»

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