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• Feathers! spluttered Sargatanas. Feathers are for the birds, my boy. Flaking, peeling, scale-ridden wings, now that's what real beings wear. I'll tell you a secret. He said, and drew me closer. The eternal pain at having known Paradise and lost it is priceless. I wouldn't swap it for anything.

  George Pendle

  Pain, Real, Boys

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• And we may be led, then, upward through more
  Powerful forms of poetry, past columns
  With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference.
  Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms
  Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.

  John Ashbery

  Country, Art, Powerful

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• The cousin said that Gypsy [Rose Lee] took a full fifteen minutes to peel off a single glove, and that she was so damn good at it he gladly would've given her fifteen more. So this story got me thinking, who was Gypsy Rose Lee? Who could possibly take the simple act of peeling off a glove and make it so riveting that one might be compelled to watch this for a full half-hour? So I began researching, and I came across a series of articles from the year 1940 about Gypsy in Life magazine.

  Karen Abbott

  Cousin, Simple, Thinking

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• I said this man [Donald Trump] is peeling back the onion of White civility; and every level of that onion that he peels back, more and more of the nakedness of rancor and hate and bitterness is coming up out of the followers. This is one of the most interesting of all of the political presidential runs that I have had the blessing of seeing in my 83 years on this planet.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Running, Hate, Blessing

  "The Breakfast Club" Interview, www.finalcall.com. May 24, 2016.

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• A good or great performance is like peeling an onion; in every scene you reveal another layer, something the audience hasn't seen until then. They stay involved because they are constantly learning about and discovering the character they are watching. They can't take you for granted and it keeps them hooked.

  Larry Moss

  Character, Layers, Onions

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• From a writer's standpoint, each character and story presents its own unique challenges and delights. I'm deeply curious about all of my characters, and I love peeling away their layers to see what's underneath their skin, or secreted deep within their hearts.

  Tina St. John

  Heart, Character, Unique

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• Now the Thanksgiving meal is just so unnecessarily difficult. I mean even mashed potatoes - it's like the most difficult kind of, you know, medieval idea. All right, instead of just cooking them, why don't you spend, like, eight hours peeling them and then we'll have to mash them up. It feels like prison labor, really.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Mean, Eight, Ideas

  Source: www.npr.org

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• As we go within the self, we discover that all the voices of our past lives are still there. As we peel ourselves, which is a process very much like peeling an onion, we discover that there are many selves within the self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Voice

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• When you start peeling the onion and uncovering layers and layers of inequity that have been subsidized by government, it makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

  Robert D Bullard

  Government, People, Onions

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Wrapping Christmas presents is tough. Even peeling a Mandarin orange is tough. I have to get my kids to help me.

  Brendan Morrison

  Kids, Hockey, Nhl

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• I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called "old-fashioned," who are like tumbledown picturesque little houses, delightful in their simplicity and complete unlikeness to the new smooth buildings whose walls have not yet been discolored by the rain, whose roofs are not yet covered with green lichen, and whose porch does not display its bricks through the peeling stucco.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Wall, Rain, Russia

  Nikolai Gogol (1985). “The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

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• A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day and I had to show him how to peel a turnip, because the way he was peeling turnips, he was throwing half of it in the garbage. It's not about being cheap. It's about being proper.

  Daniel Boulud

  Guy, Half, Way

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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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• If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out.

  Allan Savory

  Artist, Ideas, People

  "Art, Film and Wilderness". Interview with Kevin George, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2011.

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• Umm... So I just realized Ive been peeling bananas wrong my entire life. Thank you animal planet.

  Miles Teller

  Animal, Bananas, Planets

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• I think of my work as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath.

  Shimon Attie

  Thinking, Today, Kind

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• Give weather reports. It helps the reality of a scene if foghorns are blowing or kites are in the sky on a windy afternoon or the day's so hot wallpaper is peeling off the walls.

  Sid Fleischman

  Wall, Reality, Sky

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• The beauty of doing a series is that, over the course of time, it's like peeling an onion. You're able to reveal these layers, more and more. You just don't want to reveal too much, too soon.

  Harry Lennix

  Onions, Want, Layers

  "Harry Lennix Talks THE BLACKLIST, Joining the Series, Facing off with James Spader, Character Backstory, and Announcing BATMAN VS. SUPERMAN at Comic-Con". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 2, 2013.

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• Part of my learning curve as a novice screenwriter was peeling back the layers and getting to the core of the story. I was really blessed to have two amazing writing mentors who helped me along the way. They always encouraged me to be okay with a simple story.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Blessed, Writing, Simple

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings.

  J. K. Rowling

  Cat, Night, Potatoes

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• I've learned that ayahuasca works in levels, a little like peeling an onion. It is complex and something you really have to experience to understand.

  Zoe Helene

  Ayahuasca, Onions, Levels

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• He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.

  Ray Bradbury

  Onions, Layers, Busy

  Ray Bradbury (1967). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.19, Dramatic Publishing

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• How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.

  Henry Rollins

  Memories, Lying, Heart

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.127, Villard

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• Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.

  Janette Rallison

  Running, Heart, Smell

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.13, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

  Holly Black

  Hurt, Skins, Feels

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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