"I was like, 'What is this?' Until I found out it was stress related. That's how I internalized it. I don't do that anymore. My favorite saying in the world is, 'The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.' I am telling you, I have spent so much of my life not feeling comfortable in my skin. I am just so not there anymore."

-- Viola Davis

#Stress Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Skins Quotes

“The best we can do is focus on what we have the power to improve in ourselves, and when it comes to body-love the one you are with.”
“I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set of America.”

Source : Vanity Fair, August 2006.
“The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have wasted my hours.”
“My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes.”
“We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.”
“I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.”

Source : "Leslie Nielsen Dead: Comedian Remembered For ‘Airplane’ And ‘Naked Gun’", www.huffingtonpost.com. November 28, 2010.
“The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or skills, who had to rely on their imaginations to contrive a way of making their hearts beat faster or even to keep them at a normal pace; to search unaided for a hidden gleam of light, and to live with two seasons a year instead of four.”

Source : Hanan Al-Shaykh (2010). “Women of Sand and Myrrh”, p.352, A&C Black

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