His eyeless skull took in the line of costumes, the waxy debris of the makeup table. His empty nostrils snuffed up the mixed smells of mothballs, grease, and sweat. There was something here, he thought, that nearly belonged to the gods. Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflects the landscape. And yet... and yet... Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from - hatred, fear, tyranny, and so forth. Death was intrigued. They thought they wanted to be taken out of themselves, and every art humans dreamt up took them further in.
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He giggled like a puppy being tickled by a kitten wearing a duckling costume.
There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.
None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.
There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.
It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.
I had a dream about you last week. It was October 31, 2002 and we met at a Halloween party. You came dressed as yourself; I knew you__e been hiding your true self all this time.
A costume party_ great_ a chance for the bimbos to whore themselves out with no penalty of conscience. I found myself excruciatingly curious as to what she was going as, a sailor? No. A pilot. That would be something
An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.
Any girl with a grin never looks grim.
With right fashion, every female would be a flame.
Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.
It's time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead.
Fashion doesn't make you perfect, but it makes you pretty.
Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for.
Dresses don't look beautiful on hangers.
As I'm smiling but fearing for the worse, he asks if I was in the Navy."NO. THIS IS JUST MY HALLOWEEN COSTUME.""WELL, I WAS... FOR NEARLY TWENTY YEARS."I don't know whether he wants me to apologize for impersonating a sailor, thank him for his service, or stop drooling as I melt into his eyes