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Quoted in The Grove:   costume

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
~Yiddish proverb

There’s a point… when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
~Ursula K Le Guin

It is a despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.
~Charles Baudelaire

EndQuote:
The way you dress is how you greet the sun and other stars.
~Kamand Kojouri

 

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Exercise Prompt for 11/01:   fear

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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor’s first line, so it’s gotta be right!
~Xavier Dolan

Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth — it really does establish who they are.
~Colleen Atwood

I put the costume on and said ‘It’s not very comfortable, but it looks amazing,’ so it’s all good.
~Chris Hemsworth

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
~Mason Cooley

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I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveler.
~Julia Sawalha

I don’t believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.
~Stephanie Perkins

…and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that’s when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?
~Cary Grant

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Posted from the Grove

It took me a while to warm to the ’20s costumes on ‘Downton.’ I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, ‘We’re equal to men!’
~Lily James

Madonna has a far profounder vision of sex than do the feminists. She sees both the animality and the artifice. Changing her costume style and hair color virtually every month, Madonna embodies the eternal values of beauty and pleasure. Feminism says, ‘No more masks.’ Madonna says we are nothing but masks. Through her enormous impact on young women around the world, Madonna is the future of feminism.
~Camille Paglia

I’m always trying to change things – change my character, change my look, change my hair, change my facial hair, change my costumes, or implement different jackets or catchphrases. I try to keep myself fresh.
~Chris Jericho

Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
~Vernon Howard

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~TimeLab:  Switzerland. Geneva & Romandy   (2:19)   the quiet costume of beauty
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/468473333

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~Casson Mann: Hollywood Costume (3:06) a costume museum
https://vimeo.com/81802154

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~Hazbin Hotel:  Halloween makeover   (4:11)   a tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QphrRS1lFSI

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Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
~Arnold Schwarzenegger

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
~Zig Ziglar

Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.
~Amit Kalantr

Self confidence is the best outfit, rock it and own it.
~Richa Kanwar

A good style fits like a good costume.
~Amos Bronson Alcott

Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don’t take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
~Sam Walton

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VIDEO:

Costumes are so much better than clothes. They’re like drugs, they change your personality.
~Mary Woronov

The costume affects your posture, affects your walk, how you hold yourself, and how you breathe. The costumes make you deliver.
~Richard Madden

You put on the military outfit, and it definitely tightens everything up and makes you stand up straighter.
~Diego Klattenhoff

Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you’re wearing, and you turn into someone else.
~Jane Levy

It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you’re pretending to be.
~John Boyne

I definitely feel, when I’m wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them.
~Joan Severance

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When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.
~David Mamet

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
~Anna Held

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~Omeleto:  The Critic   (15:00)   award winning actress’ life and…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99vwLjvknN8

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~Omeleto:  Pawns   (12:29)   uniforms, merely costumes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjP9eYCM964

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~Young Vic Short Film:  The Roof    (9:51)   stellar cast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFtxhPMBeqQ

 

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I’ve been trying to make it my own way in an industry full of heels walking around in babyface costumes, and that brought out the worst in me.
~Austin Aries

No matter where they are or who they’re with, dogs are incapable of being anything but themselves. Show me a dog that puts on airs or laughs politely at an unfunny joke and I’ll show you a human in a dog costume, possibly one owned and licensed by the Walt Disney Company.
~Meghan Daum

Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.
~Orson Scott Card

 

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When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.
~David Mamet

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
~Anna Held

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MUSIC:

Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
~Vera Wang

Satan himself can’t save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.
~Rudyard Kipling

When I go out and I’m presenting the best side of myself, I want to look different from everyone, but I don’t want it to look like I’m wearing a costume.
~Rachel Roy

My costumes were made for sex appeal not for women.
~Brenda Holloway

I don’t think women should look like costumes. I don’t think they should look like fashion victims.
~Ralph Lauren

I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage.
~Kami Garcia

With right fashion, every female would be a flame.
~Amit Kalantri

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~Dodie Stevens:  Pink Shoe Laces   (2:36)   nostalgia #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGgaZZl_GVg

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~Jerry Lee Lewis:  Chantilly Lace   (2:48)   nostalgia #2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3cMZkvjzNY

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~Mitch Ryder: Devil With A Blue Dress On,  feat. James Williamson   (3:24)   change of pace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUoxjmJ9FP4&list

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~Beyonce:  Haunted   (5:21)   you want costumes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4r4lysSgLE

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~Radiohead:  Creep, feat. Brian Justin Crum   (3:28)   needs a moment to recover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68qc1X1tikg

 

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You can change the look of an outfit so easily by changing the kind of jewelry you wear. If you have a basic outfit on – a black sweater and skirt or a simple black dress – you can go from the office to a cocktail party at night just by changing your jewelry. It helps if you change your shoes as well.
~Iris Apfel

Shoes make an outfit; they’re like rims for a car.
~Omari Hardwick

A woman makes an outfit her own with accessories.
~Oscar de la Renta

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Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautiful.
~Coco Chanel

I never had a fondness for gems or the extravagance of Harry Winston or Van Cleef & Arpels. I’ve always liked the more flamboyant, imaginative things. I lusted after costume jewelry. My husband was a very lucky man.
~Iris Apfel

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We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. ‘What is it?’ asked Larry at length. ‘It’s a bathing costume, of course,’ said Mother. ‘What on earth did you think it was?’ ‘It looks like a badly skinned whale,’ said Larry, peering at it closely.
~Gerald Durrell

You men out there probably think you already know how to dress for success. You know, for example, that you should not wear leisure suits or white plastic belts and shoes, unless you are going to a costume party disguised as a pig farmer vacationing at Disney World.
~Dave Barry

I am out in public and using the phone. I am in a phone booth, got the phone in my hand and a man taps on the glass and says You using the phone? Nope, I’m superman, i am just looking for my costume.
~Bill Engvall

One thing I learned is that it’s never OK to walk through a cemetery dressed as a mummy — even if that was a shortcut on the way to the costume party.
~Demetri Martin

Women: You can’t live with them, and you can’t get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.
~Emo Philips

I’m thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.
~Marilyn Manson

Have you ever dated a Goth chick for four or five months until you realized she was just an Orthodox Jew? They have the same costumes.
~Dana Gould

Oh, hello,” Dr. M says, shaking Balder’s hand. “Wonderful costume. I’m a bit of a role player myself on the weekends. Tell me, where did you get the helmet?” It was forged in the North, blessed by the hands of Odin, given to me by my mother, Frigg,” Balder answers. Lovely. I got mine on the Internet.
~Libba Bray

Nice costume,” he said. “Ditto. I can tell you put a lot of thought into yours.” Amusement curled his mouth. “If you don’t like it, I can take it off.” I tapped my chin thoughtfully. “That just might be the best proposal I’ve had all night.” “My offers are always the best, Angel.”
~Becca Fitzpatrick

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This is ridiculous! I am going to look like I just hopped out of the hooker version of Alice in Wonderland.
~Jessica Fortunato

For men there are costumes like fireman, policeman and vampire. For women there are costumes like slutty fireman, slutty policeman and slutty vampire.
~Dana Gould

In some ways, Halloween is much easier for women. They can just dress as sluts, and it’s kind of a costume, if they never do any other time.
~Chuck Klosterman

So, did the costume come with a condom, or is that sold separately?
~Rachel Vincent

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© David Lorenz Winston

 

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All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it’s theirs. It’s a series of costumes put on my life by other people.
~Robert Fulghum

There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh and blood.
~Siri Hustvedt

When I first saw a White Dutch person dressed up as Black Pete, I was both sickened and shocked. It’s hard to stand next to someone who views your skin color and hair as a costume.
~Roger Ross Williams

Come election time, black and white politicians put on their costumes of compassion and care, shake black hands, kiss black babies, sing ‘We Shall Overcome’ in black , and pray that we will ignore the reality of everyday suffering and the damage that is being done to our future in exchange for our votes.
~Salim Akil

The threats against democracy today are in general completely normal. They walk around in costume and tie.
~Carl B Hamilton

There are things I cannot do, costumes I cannot wear. When I have taken stands on things, it is because I have thought carefully about them.
~Sylvie Guillem

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Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his ‘being different’ gets in the way.
~Henri Nouwen

The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it’s the same story with different characters and different costumes.
~James Randi

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@Writers Platform

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.
~Irving Kaufman

For the Indian, dance is a personal form of prayer. When the Eagle Dancer puts on his costume, when he begins to dance to the music, he doesn’t simply perform it; he actually becomes the eagle itself. The dancer is virtually inseparable from the dance.
~Jamake Highwater

If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
~Douglas Coupland

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Glass Table:

~Christone:

A Book:  By Charles Kingsley

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book! – a message to us from the dead – from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away: and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak to us, amuse us, vivify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers. . . . I say we ought to reverence books, to look at them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true; whether they are about religion or politics, farming, or trade, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things, the teacher of all truth, which He has put into the hearts of some man to speak, that he may tell us what is good for our spirits, for our bodies for our country. Would to God that all here would make the rule never to look into an evil book!

 

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Costumes are fun. Dress up like a pilot some night and watch as people stare!
~Tim Heidecker

I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there’s something great about loving what you love and not caring if it’s unpopular.
~Kristen Bell

A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so décolleté as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.
~Honore de Balzac

I met [Gilda Radner] on the first night of filming … Hanky Panky that Sidney Poitier was directing. And it’s funny, I was in costume and makeup – my tuxedo and makeup because I’d done a few shots before she arrived, and she told me later that she cried all the way in, in the car, because she knew that she was going to fall in love with me and want to get married.
~Gene Wilder

 

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Exercise Prompt:   costume

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Never let a trend get in the way of creating a great outfit for yourself.
~Stacy London

Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
~Madeline Zima

People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit.
~David Byrne

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.
~Loretta Young

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The Exercise:

~BarTalk:

Dual Doggerels Dueling

The Politico

Crowns for the clowns
Who rule and rage
Who decorate time
Blank history’s page

Tyrants and despots admiring dictators
Bullies and bullets and human degraders
Ruder than crude and berating debater
Legal escapee and loophole creator

Deny the facts in defiance
Forsaking proven alliances
Despising reason & science
Ignoring legal compliance

Flouting the laws flaunting his cause
Rushing to punish, no process, no pause
Favors Russian the bear baring its claws
Would kill for applause just one of his flaws

Unseemly greed, huge hunger for money
Willing to poison the gold nature of honey
Ringmaster apprentice, circus not funny
Debt-ridden past, cloudy future not sunny

Fake orange in bloom
White plaster buffoon
Patriotic costume
A virtual cartoon

A backstage, low-grade, unqualified actor
Where a ham who can smirk doesn’t actually factor
Or a swindling, chiseling, non-paying contractor
A nut house defector and genius detractor

A nation in tatters
The rich getting fatter
An unbridled satyr
Because only he mattered

Red, white and blue, a harlequin showman
Blinkered and blind, a petulant shaman
Failure to protect not a reason to crow, man
Pleads like, elect me, but voters say no, man

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The Poetaster

Dilettante bard, failed as composer
Second-rate minstrel, unrated poet
Flailing at rhyming, a poser and loser
Confessing, yes, think I don’t know it

Unpardonable sin
Offending the process
Punning for fun
Spewing his nonsense

For abusing the craft
Finally brought to task
Why do it, they asked
But he only laughed

Rather strive and to fail
At work that I love, see
The chores that but pale
Won’t improve me or move me

Don’t waste your time
Simply turn the page
Just understand that I’m
Never saint neither sage

More nude than prude
Bare self on a shelf
As book ends feud
Penning, costumes off

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5-7-5-7-7

uniform costume
173rd, Airborne
outfits the finest
dress greens to jungle fatigues
dressed to kill or die trying

 

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I’m a light bearer dressed in a sleep wear.
~Ana Claudia Antunes

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures, faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s hard to tell
if we close our eyes or if night
opens in us other starred eyes,
if it burrows into the wall of our dream
till some other door opens.
But the dream is only the flitting costume of one moment,
is spent in one beat
of the darkness,
and falls at our feet, cast off
as the day stirs and sails away with us.
~Pablo Neruda

In a life where waking hours are draped in the costume of horrid nightmare, where reality has suddenly become questionable, it’s easy to be scared by dreams.
~Scott Sigler

I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes.
~Anais Nin

Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be changed at will. That the changing of bodies, like costumes, would make me into a different character, a character who might, finally, be alright.
~Marya Hornbacher

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
~Chuck Palahniuk

Get my swan costume ready.
~Anna Pavlova

 

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