Thick Quotes - Page 19

• I shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants.

  Sara Blakely

  Workout, Clothes, Band

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• I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.

  Diane Abbott

  Hurt, People, Attacking

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• I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

  Viola Davis

  Mom, Believe, Order

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• I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

  Gordon Gee

  College, President, Skins

  "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Home, Genius, Lines

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want a new drug, one that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car, or make my head three feet thick.

  Huey Lewis

  Feet, Sick, Car

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• Love is thick and it swallows me whole.

  Alanis Morissette

  Love, Love Is, Whole

  Song: Head Over Feet, Album: Jagged Little Pill, 1995

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• The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Blow, Media

  Song: Restless Farewell, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

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• Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts, that we find it more natural to write down the thoughts rather than the deeds of our characters. But speaking as a teacher who has spent some twenty years slogging through manuscripts where thoughts and exposition pile up as thick as the aftermath of a California mudslide, I can attest to the power of the evocative detail, gesture, or figment of speech.

  Les Standiford

  Running, Teacher, Character

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• A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, Philistines, Backwoods

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• I'm, like, a real nerd, in that I will take a book that is three inches thick and disappear and not leave until it's done.

  Julia Jones

  Real, Book, Nerd

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• I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.

  Graham Joyce

  People, Novelists, Language

  "Don't confuse 'readability' with dumbing down" by Graham Joyce, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can make it as thick or thin as you like depending on how much water you add. It's very practical in summer because yogurt cools the body faster than water, but the water hydrates you.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Summer, Thinking, Water

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• My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

  Romany Malco

  Art, Made, Critics

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• I think whether you're a movie critic and have seen a million movies, or you're just a normal popcorn movie watcher, you can tell the difference when someone is just laying it on too thick.

  Josh Peck

  Thinking, Differences, Popcorn

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• Every two months, I allow myself a splurge day where I eat thick, doughy pizza from Pizzeria Uno or an ice cream sundae from my store with birthday-cake ice cream, Marshmallow Fluff, and toppings mixed in.

  Dylan Lauren

  Ice, Cake, Two

  "Eating Diaries: Carly Cushnie, Dylan Lauren & Elizabeth Cutler". Interview with Jessica Prince Erlich, Slide 7, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 05, 2013.

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• I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker.

  Amy Poehler

  Hair, Color, Eyebrows

  "Tina Fey on Top". Interview with Amy Poehler, www.marieclaire.com. April 10, 2008.

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• My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure.

  Cheryl Strayed

  People, Advice, Know It All

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• The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the first condition for the practice of higher magic is the stopping of thought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Buddhism, Practice

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• The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is to live in that smog.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Clouds, People

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• The world is entering another dark age. After 1985, the Maya will be so thick that it will be difficult to advance spiritually without a strong foundation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Buddhism, Dark

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• The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again.

  Edward Thomas

  Easter, Flower, Home

  Edward Thomas (2012). “Poems of Edward Thomas”, p.17, Other Press, LLC

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• I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.

  Tom Sizemore

  House, Velvet, Drapes

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• My biggest advice for girls - and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger - is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.

  Kate Voegele

  Girl, Song, Advice

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. May 05, 2011.

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• You know, when you go to high school or, you know, when kids are younger and there's not an understanding of differences. But I built up a very strong, thick skin.

  Alexander Wang

  Strong, Kids, School

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