#mask

When I started out, I preferred to watch my films without music, as its presence tends to mask the underlying pace of the film. I felt I could feel the rhythm of the film better without music to influence me. ↗

— Paul Hirsch

#could #feel #felt #film #films

Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I'm not saying that's bad. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#best #everybody #foot #forward #i

...there's something magical about a mask, but I have never worn one - I want you to see my pain and know how your love affects me... ↗

— John Geddes

#love-lost #mask #pain #love

I hated meatloaf. It was like something that Satan pooped out after an eternity of constipation. So I told Mom because I was honest that way. I sat back, squared my shoulders, and met her eyes, all confident-like. "Mom, meatloaf's like something that Satan pooped out after an eternity of constipation. It should be outlawed, frankly, and serving it for dinner is like child abuse and should carry with it some pretty stiff penalties. ↗

— Hayden Thorne

#funny #masks #meatloaf #funny

If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#love

If you want people to love you for who you are, take the mask off ↗

— Martin Suarez

#honesty #mask #original #transparency #transparent

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

#deep #effort #emerge #experience #explain

If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask. ↗

— Frances Conroy

#bought #choose #frankenstein #mask #own

All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy. ↗

— John Dillinger

#am #bank #best #carry #ever

She did not know yet how sometimes people keep parts of themselves hidden and secret, sometimes wicked and unkind parts, but often brave or wild or colorful parts, cunning or powerful or even marvelous, beautiful parts, just locked up away at the bottom of their hearts. They do this because they are afraid of the world and of being stared at, or relied upon to do feats of bravery or boldness. And all of those brave and wild and cunning and marvelous and beautiful parts they hid away and left in the dark to grow strange mushrooms—and yes, sometimes those wicked and unkind parts, too—end up in their shadow. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#layers #masks #beauty