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«Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.»
«There's a little gray house in a one-street town, And the door stands open, and the steps go down, And you prop up the window with a stick on the sill, And you carry spring water from the bottom of the hill; And the white star of Bethlehem grows in t»
Author: Maxwell Anderson
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
Bethlehem, In t, prop, prop up, sill, spring water, stick on
«The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.»
Author: Reese Witherspoon
(Actress)
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Actors and acting
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actors, necessarily, prop, propped, propping, props, prop up, role, transforming, true to
«A little saint best fits a little shrine, / A little prop best fits a little vine, / As my small cruse best fits my little wine.»
«I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them; you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.»
«I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.»
«Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside; but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without; and there was a slight stirring of expectation at the sight of his fellow-men, a faint consciousness of dependence on their goodwill.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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casket, caskets, dependence, despairing, expectation, faint, formerly, groped, grope for, groping, inevitably, in darkness, lock, locked, prop, propped, propping, props, prop up, Silas, slight, stirring
«Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up»
«Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.»
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