Skins Quotes - Page 20

Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down

You don't know being a performer what kind of performance you're going to give. You know you can give a certain quality of performance, but as I grow older I'm much more content in my own skin because when I come offstage, I have a balance in my life.

... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.

In terms of jumping into a characters skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is whats required to achieve what I want to achieve.

My type, which I didnt realize until somebody pointed out to me, apparently is brunettes with darker skin tones, but that is about it as far as aesthetically.

It's wrong to discriminate based on skin color when there are so many other reasons not to like someone.

Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran.

He's helped me a lot over the years." "I'm sure he has. You scratch his back. He scratches yours." "I have skin allergies. I'm itchy.

St. Tropez has a face glow that is amazing - you can put it on without makeup, and your skin just glows.

Beauty is more than skin deep.

It's a sin problem, not a skin problem.

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

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.

Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.

Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . .

Life is easier when you are comfortable in your own skin.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It's all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor.

We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.

I love skin. I don't believe the body is something to hide.

Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own voice and will shed the skin of the writer you imitated.

Punk, I see you as a hypocritical, manipulative waste of skin.

A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.