Top Curtain Quotes
I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.
David Geffen
There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.
Rudolf Bing
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
Douglas Horton
One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.
Clive Barnes
My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
T. S. Eliot
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Eli Wallach 
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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.
James Stewart 
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There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.
Mireille Mathieu
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.
Sarah Bernhardt
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But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War.
Joseph Rotblat
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Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.
Maurice Jarre
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From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home.
John Cameron
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Popular Curtain Authors
Henry David ThoreauWinston ChurchillDwight D. EisenhowerVirginia WoolfGroucho MarxJames Russell LowellT. S. EliotDouglas HortonJerry FalwellRainer Maria RilkeE. B. WhiteEli WallachJoseph RotblatNatan SharanskyNorman Lear
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