"On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings."
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"I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye."
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"and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon."
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"A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it."
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"The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes."
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"I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn I courted her proudly but now she is gone Gone as the season she's taken"
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"Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin."
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"You have been an apprentice long enough; it is now time to shed your protective skin. Trust!"
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"The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin."
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"Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!"
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"I always start the day with a cup of hot water and lemon - I find it really cleanses and hydrates me. I have very sensitive, dry skin, so I have to be careful about what I put on my face. My must-haves are Dermalogica cleansing gel and L'Or De Vie Creme Riche by Dior, which is thick and nourishing."
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"I was asked by an NPR reporter once, why don't I talk about race that often. I said it's because I'm a neurosurgeon. And she thought that was a strange response. And you say - I said, you see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are."
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"We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality."
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"The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment."
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"My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us."
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"The outfit is inspired by Alice in Wonderland. It's kind of about a surprise, because when Alice goes down the rabbit hole, she finds all these things that are so surprising. This outfit is about having a surprise in a tennis dress, and showing some skin and then just having a print. Prints don't happen that often in tennis. So it's called the Wonderland dress."
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"I have tough skin. I don't really read any of the comments unless they are positive. I don't accept that much negativity in my life. It's not an option."
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"I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it's so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music."
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"When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched."
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"He's so small, he's a waste of skin."
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