Skins Quotes - Page 40

• Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Magic, Fiction, Scene

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• New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.

  Salvador Dali

  Land, Liberty, Geology

  Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.393, Courier Corporation

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• Most Britons still lived and died without encountering anyone whose skin colour was different from their own. Slaves, in short, did not threaten, at least as far as the British at home were concerned. Bestowing freedom upon them seemed therefore purely an act of humanity and will, an achievement that would be to Great Britain's economic detriment, perhaps, but would have few other domestic consequences.

  Linda Colley

  Home, Achievement, Humanity

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• Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to be replaced by the gorgeous imagery of things that have never been and never will be? The most special effect in movies is always the human face when its mind is being changed.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Real, Loss, Skin Tone

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• That's what I do. I get in and get under people's skin and all that stuff. But you will remember me - and that's all that matters.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, People, Stuff

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• I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than what is happening in the world. We willingly take that 'drug' and go along with that.

  Meryl Streep

  Fashion, Thinking, Hair

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I wanted to touch on how we look on each other. Good hair, light skin, you must be smart; if you're black, you're dark-skinned, you're ugly. That really happens. This is something that started with slavery, when they divided the house, and it's still a part of today's society and things that we battle with.

  Rapsody

  Smart, Dark, Light

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• There's always a tension between wanting to write a really concise, instant gratification type song that gets under your skin the first time you hear it, and wanting to really stretch out. I think it's a healthy tension.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2007.

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• I think viewing people by the color of their skin is one of the dumbest ways to view people.

  Bobby Jindal

  Thinking, Color, Views

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. June 28, 2015.

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• To be comfortable in your skin was the biggest topic for me because I'm somebody who's always judged just by how I look. I wanted to get the message across that you don't have to hide yourself or be glamorous, just be you.

  Kid Ink

  Looks, Messages, Topics

  Source: thecomeupshow.com

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• Surfing is very special and unique. It's really hard to explain unless you've tried it. It's being out in the ocean in the sun, the water on your skin, and the adrenalin rush when you catch a wave. You have to be creative so it's like an art form in a way.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Art, Ocean, Unique

  Source: www.lasplash.com

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• The color of a person's skin had nothing to do with the content of their character.

  Michael Jackson

  Character, Color, Persons

  "Children 'saved me,' Michael Jackson said". "Dateline", www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2009.

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• If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.

  Terry Gilliam

  Unique, Stupidity, Needs

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Essentially, if our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them. There is no shame in being sad or struggling or trying to heal. We are all desperate, depraved and sacred. We are all terrible and brillIant. I can list all the things that can make a girl want to escape her own body (re: patriarchy). But I’d rather list all the things that make me want to stay in my body, and adorn it like a home, rub oils into my skin, tell it how sorry I am for trying to leave, for trying to hurt it into submission

  Warsan Shire

  Girl, Hurt, Sorry

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• For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If animals did have voices, and they could speak with the tongues of angels-at the very least with the tongues of angels-they would be unable to save themselves from us. What good would language do? Their mysterious otherness has not saved them, nor have their beautiful songs and coats and skins and shells and eyes.

  Joy Williams

  Beautiful, Song, Eye

  Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.123, Rowman & Littlefield

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• ...and suddenly it hits you: Human skin is actually made up of billions of tiny units of protoplasm, called "cells"! And what is even more interesting, the ones on the outside are all dying! This is a fact. Your skin is like an aggressive modern corporation, where the older veteran cells, who have finally worked their way to the top and obtained offices with nice views,are constantly being shoved out the window head first, without so much as a pension plan,by younger hotshot cells moving up from below.

  Dave Barry

  Nice, Moving, Pension Plans

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• I love going to the beach in the tropics and doing whatever I do - surfing, swimming or being - and the glow when I get a tan that deepens. I walk around with red and gold in my skin and feel like the most beautiful thing on the planet!

  Anika

  Beautiful, Beach, Swimming

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• Those who have never worked nude outdoors just can't imagine how much better a breeze feels on their skin than an item of sweaty clothing.

  Ben Miller

  Imagine

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• Staph lives on skin. Thats the reason why many infections start as a boil.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Reason Why, Reason, Infection

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• Now, personally, I am baffled by the concept of racial prejudice. Why hate someone based on the color of their skin when, if you take the time to get to know them as a human being, you can find so many other things to hate them for?

  Dennis Miller

  Hate, Color, Prejudice

  Dennis Miller (2010). “Rants”, p.57, Main Street Books

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• I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Appreciate, Alive, Realizing

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• Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beautiful, we wish our clothes could glisten and ripple against our skins, most of all, we wish that everyone we knew could be brightened simply by our looking at them, as are the maid with the letter and the soldier with the hat.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Beautiful, Clothes, Light

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.168, Vintage

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• The skin is a true symbol of our health because it's the last place to get nutrition and if you can drive all those nutrients all the way through to the skin then you know it's gotten everywhere else too and that's something that we all recognise.

  David Wolfe

  Way, Lasts, Nutrition

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• Look for foods that create beauty from the inside out. Instead of coating yourself in chemical laden beauty products, why not try to get healthy skin from the foods you eat.

  David Wolfe

  Healthy, Trying, Looks

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• For me especially, I travel a lot, and with the weather change and everything, my skin gets dehydrated very fast.

  Gal Gadot

  Weather

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