Emma Watson
Actress, Activist
"I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls."
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Dolls
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Jane Russell
Actress
"I love God, and when you get to know Him, you find He's a Livin' Doll."
Emma Watson
Actress, Activist
"I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross."
Verne Troyer
Actor
"There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll."
Ramana Maharshi
Spiritual Teacher
"By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea."
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"I'm just a Ragetty Anne in a Barbie Doll World"
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"At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house."
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"Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection."
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"Dolls are safe companions."
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"People thought I was this doll that came to life, so I would have different people just treating me very strangely as far as I was concerned. They wanted to see if I was real."
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"I used to cut out paper dolls."
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"If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words."
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"All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away."
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"Popularity is for dolls."
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"I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches."
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"I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison."
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"The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words inside line up, they look like a bridge: Be Beg Ego Go On One."
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"Because the priest must have like every dog his day Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon, We and our dolls being but the world were best away."
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"I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together"
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"I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls."
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"A living doll, everywhere you look. It can sew, it can cook, It can talk, talk, talk. . . . My boy, it's your last resort. Will you marry it, marry it, marry it."
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"How do I transform and be believable as Krogstad in "A Doll's House" or Sir Peter Teazle in "A School for Scandal"."
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