#mask

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#life #mask #secret #life

I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?' ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#class #did #ever #going #i

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. ↗

— Paul Valery

#brake #great #kind #man #mask

We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency! ↗

— Richard Curtis

#anyone #gloves #i #imagine #literary

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it. ↗

— John Cusack

#core #death #extreme #fascism #kitsch

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#actor #acts #deals #delicate #does

I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#after #been #beginning #believed #blonde

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#disturbances #fearful #mask #more #never

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

#anonymity #anytime #anywhere #brings #connect

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#believing #bomb #carry #city #fear