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Quotes Tagged "dress-up"

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.
— Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Tags: writing, vocabulary, style, embarrassing, dress-up, cuteness
You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Tags: win, success, score, lesson, israelmore-ayivor, goal, game, food-for-thought, extra-mile, extra, excellence, dress-up, dress, bench, believe-and-achieve, believe, action, achieve
I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.
— Helena Bonham Carter
Tags: dress-up, i-love, witches, magic, love
Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.
— Paul Giamatti
Tags: dress-up, playing, silly, acting, like
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