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"The faxes went out from the producers and the director to my agents to my manager to call me and ask me to lose weight. I just remember sitting in my trailer hysterically crying from the embarrassment I felt about myself, my body - and that no one could talk to me directly."
"Poetry is a really helpful instrument. It's so physical; the musicality becomes a sort of expression of the body. The mind is there too, in the formal aspects of the poem. The emotions are there in the way the senses gather things into the poem."
"He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul."
"I think as you get older and things don't work as much as they used to, you've got to have a tendency to do what's right for your body."
"Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe."
"The body is a damn hard thing to kill."
"The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property."
"Where the mind goes the body will follow."
"After watching mulattas shake it, I can totally understand why Brazil is devoted to my favorite body part, the ass."
"If you feel that something's going to affect your body, then it definitely will. I've always found that sex gives me a kind of calm, and I'm much more in control because of it. It's the same for friends of mine who are also top bodybuilders."
"I don't have any sexual hang-ups, but I'm sure there are bodybuilders who have trouble with sex, and obviously the body building hasn't helped."
"I don't criticize myself; I criticize my body."
"Men shouldn't feel like fags just because they want to have nice-looking bodies."
"There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy."
"To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten."
"You have an incredible body." He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch, only impatience. This is the only feeling. I feel like the paper on which my mood chart is printed."
"A society without intellectuals is like a body without a head"
"It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing."
"I am a woman and I am from Mexico, that is true. I am an artist, that is also true. When I work, I hope I'm not a woman from Mexico but an artist in body and spirit."
"Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed."
