Curtain Quotes
What curtains reveal, and what they're built to hide.
This collection uses the curtain as both a stage cue and a symbol, opening with a wish to remove the curtain of pretence from a character's face. A broadcaster's memory of never wanting an act-one curtain interruption sits alongside quotes tagged Air.
When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.
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I was an immigrant. I came here at 12. We were caught behind the Iron Curtain until I was 10.
Adverse Quotes
I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.
Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.
Everybody wants me to finally close the curtain on the joke that is the Audley Harrison show.
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.
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Elsewhere, the Iron Curtain marks a childhood spent behind a real political divide before immigrating at twelve, and one line simply notes a tense heart before its own curtain. See also After quotes.
