Layers Quotes - Page 25

• Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a house that felt too big for us.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Father, Grief

  Jodi Picoult (2004). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.591, Simon and Schuster

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• The deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. It's more challenging to me, but it's also just interesting. Those are the things I like to watch. I like to watch the evolutions of something.

  Edward Norton

  Character, Interesting, Challenges

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. January 3, 2007.

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• For me, the stereoscopic imagery was a new game to play with. Surprisingly enough, it's also a return to tradition. I'm back with paper-looking puppets moving about in several layers of theatrical backgrounds.

  Michel Ocelot

  Moving, Games, Play

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Body, Asana, Consciousness

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• You avoid the overcrowding of tourist locations by traveling in off-season. That is now one of the major rules of smart travel - go when the tourists are NOT there, and even though you may have to don an extra layer of clothing, you will enjoy the sights and the experiences at the destination in the way that they were enjoyed before they became so well-known.

  Arthur Frommer

  Smart, Sight, Tourists

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• We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations.

  Hyman Rickover

  Creativity, Frustration, Men

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• I'm a fan of balance and order, but I like to put that extra layer on top. It makes it more dynamic.

  April Greiman

  Order, Balance, Fans

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• Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.

  Yann Martel

  Country, Reading, Reality

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting yourself...You do not know what they [the audience] is going to do when you reach into yourself and rip out your organs to be displayed

  Amir Sulaiman

  Rip, Writing, Heart

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• Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.

  Hector Tobar

  Skins, World, Innocence

  Héctor Tobar (2011). “The Barbarian Nurseries: A Novel”, p.257, Macmillan

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• When white Americans frankly peel back the layers of our commingled pasts, we are all marked by it. Whether a company or an individual, we are marred either by our connections to the specific crimes and injuries of our fathers and their fathers. Or we are tainted by the failures of our fathers to fulfill our national credos when their courage was most needed. We are formed in molds twisted by the gifts we received at the expense of others. It is not our “fault.” But it is undeniably our inheritance.

  Douglas A. Blackmon

  Father, Past, White

  Douglas A. Blackmon (2009). “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II”, p.394, Anchor

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• Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

  Derrick Jensen

  Lying, Onions, Firsts

  Derrick Jensen (2012). “The Derrick Jensen Reader: Writings on Environmental Revolution”, p.36, Seven Stories Press

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• Opinions are like nipples, everybody has one. Some have firm points, others are barely discernible through layers, and some are displayed at every opportunity regardless of whether the audience has stated "I am interested in your nipples" or not.

  David Thorne

  Funny, Opportunity, Interesting

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• I've kind of codified certain things for myself, rhythmic patterns and mechanical ways of using the bow to create layers of rhythm. What I'm trying to do is to create a complete piece of music on one instrument.

  Bruce Molsky

  Trying, Pieces, Patterns

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You make sexiness strong by balancing it out: something familiar with something unfamiliar, something masculine with something feminine, something streamlined with something rococo. It's a Yin and Yang. Women are made of layers, your mood shifts, no one is neither one extreme nor the other.

  Michael Kors

  Strong, Yang, Mood

  "Michael Kors Talks Kim Kardashian and Bar Mitzvah Fashion in Shanghai". Interview with Alice Pfeiffer, www.elle.com. May 14, 2014.

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• More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the armour of adulthood. Armour encumbers, restricts the body and soul within it. But it also protects. Blows are blunted. Feelings lose their edge, leaving us to suffer naught but a plague of bruises, and, after a time, bruises fade.

  Steven Erikson

  Children, Blow, Leaving

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Memories of Ice: (Malazan Book of the Fallen: Book 3)”, p.160, Random House

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• Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Reality, Depth, Dimensions

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.157, Penguin

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• No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Mother, Hurt, Heart

  Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Big Stone Gap: A Novel”, p.176, Ballantine Books

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• I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful and un-dealt-with. Sometimes art can be a really good escape from the intolerable, and a good place to go when things are bad, but that doesn't mean you have to write directly about the bad thing; sometimes you need to let time pass, and allow the thing that hurts to get covered with layers, and then you take it out, like a pearl, and you make art out of it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Hurt, Mean

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• I am of the generation of writers who can get instant feedback from readers within hours of publication. The fan forum is extraordinary - readers from all over the world coming together to discuss, argue and debate scenes and characters from a novel. They add a layer to the story that I cannot write and yes, I will participate in that conversation and answer questions. After all, they are the people I'm writing for and their enthusiasm and questions really pushes me to raise the bar.

  Michael Scott

  Writing, Character, People

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• When I was just five years old, I loved the scary layer and the symbolical power of the red cloak. I made my mom make me that red cloak, and I had to wear it on Halloween, two years in a row.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Mom, Halloween, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• I hope to never stop growing. I hope that with every role I play, I keep adding layers to my craft. I love acting and I study religiously with my coach.

  Eva Mendes

  Play, Acting, Roles

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Meditation is a journey to know yourself. Knowing yourself has many layers. Start knowing your bodily discomforts. Know your success, know your failures. Know your fears. Know your irritations. Know your pleasures, joy and happiness. Know your mental wounds. Go deeper and examine every feeling you have.

  Amit Ray

  Journey, Irritation, Knowing

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• We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of these layers of clouds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Ignorance, Clouds

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1752, Manonmani Publishers

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• That would be cool if the earth's crust was made out of graham cracker. It would disappear just like the ozone layer, but for completely different reasons.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Ozone

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