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"I felt ashamed." "But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?" "No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal." "But how could you help that?" "Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?"
"I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way."
"Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations."
"Have we forgotten that we're all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!"
"For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state."
"I was very, very nervous about the naked scenes. I'm very shy and reserved. But it was Bertolucci and I have seen Last Tango. It's not pornographic. He's a master of eroticism. I stopped being self-conscious. You have to forget everything."
"We come into this world naked, covered in our own blood, screaming in terror - and it doesn't have to stop there if you know how to live right"
"The weird thing about old Playboys is knowing that the naked woman is now an old lady. I said weird. I didn't say bad."
"I want to leave the world as I entered it: naked and crying in a room full of strangers."
"To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing."
"I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser"
"I got kind of scared when I thought they wanted me to do something... I didn't want to be naked on the front of a magazine unless everybody would know it was a joke. I wouldn't want to be naked even then."
"Reality is modest, it won't be seen naked."
"It's been reported that some of Arnold Schwarzenegger's opponents have been circulating naked pictures of Arnold on the Internet. Yeah, in a related story, Arnold is leading the other candidates by four inches."
"The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful."
"A poem is a naked person."
"The naked truth is still taboo."
"Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder"
"... the unarmed power of naked truth."
"Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on."
