Diane Ackerman Quotes
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I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.
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I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
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Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.
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We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
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I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I'm going to be dancing on tables when I'm 50. I really hope I am.
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When I'm not working, I prefer not to use any make-up so my skin can breathe. And I always moisturise.
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Just let your skin breathe.
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You have to develop a very thick skin.
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My mum used Avon Skin So Soft oil when I was younger. She would have a bath, and then the smell used to fill the whole house.
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Embrace the color of your skin and your own beauty.
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I'm superconscious of not putting chemicals on my skin, like parabens and sulfates.
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Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin.
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I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
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I find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok.
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The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.
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Azazello begged her not to worry, assuring her that he had seen not only naked women but also women with their skin flayed clean off.
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Not caring what people think about you is so much easier said than done and I think that it's easy to be in school and kind of compare yourself to everybody else, you might think that you're weird because some people don't like you or because you just dont feel like you belong in your own skin in your school and I think that it's important to realize that there's absolutely nothing wrong with you you're worth so much. As time progresses you'll see that and you have to learn to love yourself and accept yourself because its your skin.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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If people wanted to fight me-because of my hair or because my skin was too dark-then I fought them...
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Storytelling is more like a skin. You start with the outermost layer, what it's going to look like, then you kind of get deeper into it. What's actually going on beneath the surface is not really dictated by or related to the surface genre. It's more about what's going to happen between the characters and what's taking place in the story.
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I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.
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I see a lot of true artists... then you see them on the cover of Maxim. That's the lowest of low to me. I would never do anything like that.
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Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.
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Our skin is what stands between us and the world.
