"What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin."
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"What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?"
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"Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in."
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"To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine."
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"You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others."
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"The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one."
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"The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh."
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"How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets."
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"There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin."
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"Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin."
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"We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks."
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"I'm on a diet as my skin doesn't fit me anymore."
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"I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am."
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"Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star."
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"First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure."
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"Liposuction isn't an option, because I don't have any fat under my skin. The solution? ReFirme, which is painless"
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"I had a lot of excess skin - I just needed to have it firmed"
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"I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch"
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"I have tried all my life to look after my skin, so I never do things like go to bed with make-up on. I also always use moisturisers. But I certainly do not believe in Botox or anything like that. The thought of it just makes me think 'urgh'."
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"I ask myself, 'Do you want to sit on the sidelines of life or do you want to be on the field?' I suppose all those years of building thicker skin has made it easy to endure criticism."
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