#curtain

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. ↗

— Bob Dylan

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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains. ↗

— Bill Shankly

#curtains #down #draw #everton #garden

Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours. ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#buses #curtain #every #every night #go

I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home. ↗

— John Cameron

#black #curtain #display #hidden #home

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! ↗

— Jules Verne

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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain. ↗

— Norman Lear

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I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#adverse conditions #conditions #curtain #i #like

Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#curtain #deep #deep south #early #effect

You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people's interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain. ↗

— Jay Roach

#actually #anything #behind #better #contribute