"I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you."
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"You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made And people whose skin is a different shade."
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"It's as important to be well informed in this area, if you're going to do it, as it is to be well informed about procedures in skin diving and that sort of thing if you're going to do that."
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"Although she was aware that somewhere under her complicated strata of vests and petticoats there was some skin, that didn't mean to say she approved of it."
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"Different types of chicken come at different price points. Filets are going to be more expensive. If it's bone-in and skin-on it's going to be less expensive."
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"He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out."
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"I want to look good, obviously. I don't want to look at the screen and go, Oh, my skin looks terrible, or, I look exhausted. That's why I take care of myself when I work."
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"It's not a feminizing product; it's designed to make your skin look better."
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"Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone."
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"guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness."
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"There's a place down the street; Seven Xs. What does that mean? Maybe it's... girls without skin."
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"Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her head was lowered. Françoise barely suppressed a scream. The girl was pressing the lighted end against her skin, a bitter smile curling her lips. It was an intimate, solitary smile, like that of a half-wit; the voluptuous, tortured smile of a woman possessed of some secret pleasure."
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"Obedience to authority saves many skins"
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"Being able to choose the skin I live in was the draw of fashion."
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"The yellowfly is almost too small to see, but if you leave its egg in your skin, you will lose an arm or leg before it hatches - if it does not kill you."
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"Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing; but before you realize its magical power, it's gotten under your skin, become part of you and your destiny."
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"I don't use specific brands really. It's just that for my skin, I need as high an SPF factor as I can get my hands on. That's the only rule."
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"she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses."
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"Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases."
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"The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness."
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