#curtain

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting. ↗

— James Stewart

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Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain! ↗

— Angie Stone

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It's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise. ↗

— David Talbot

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Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone. ↗

— Flip Wilson

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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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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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The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

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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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