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Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece. -- Gillian Anderson
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. -- Mary Kay Ash
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. -- Mark Haddon
I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did. -- Ricky Williams
All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments. -- Sarah Hall
When you choose to focus on today and all the possibilities that lie ahead you automatically release your grip on yesterday. Layers of the past gradually fall away and you are soon set free -- Sue Augustine
His eyes are blue, and blue eyes up close are a celestial phenomenon: nebulae as seen through telescopes, the light of unnamed stars diffused through dusts and elements and endlessness. Layers of light. Blue eyes are starlight. -- Laini Taylor
A grownup is a child with layers on. -- Woody Harrelson
A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do. -- Michael Chiklis
It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. -- Ellen DeGeneres
When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control. -- Donald Rumsfeld
When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process. -- Cate Blanchett
Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up. -- Bill Gates
Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. -- Carl Sandburg
I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. -- Edward Norton
That's what's so cool about 'Once:' There is a layer of darker stuff, but it's balanced by this incredible light. -- Cristin Milioti
I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change. -- Harrison Birtwistle
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Edward Abbey
If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers of my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong. -- Lykke Li
We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America. -- Paul Ryan
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer. -- Johannes Stark
The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances. -- Georges Cuvier
I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around. -- Roland Joffe
How cool it is to see a bride walking down the aisle with a beautiful long gown with beautiful layers of tulle and organza, unveiling their mini dress at the party? -- Reem Acra
As a mom, you worry about protecting your kid. But there are extra added layers of fears when you're talking about a kid with autism or who has some special needs issue. -- Holly Robinson Peete
The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia! -- Vera Wang
When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered. -- Park Chan-wook
It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique. And that's what I know for sure... I think. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length. -- Karl Ferdinand Braun
We put people of concern on the watch list or the no-fly list, so we have a number of layers of security beyond the airport checkpoint. We gather as much information about a passenger as the law allows without profiling. -- John Pistole
Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom of expression, this approach may seem forced, unnecessary and misunderstood. But this system of communication has become very Iranian. -- Shirin Neshat
The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones. -- Georges Cuvier
The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area. -- Georges Cuvier
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. -- John Burroughs
I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political - everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn't, then forget it. -- Marina Abramovic
It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement - that you can't get anywhere else. And the speed that the people move. It's so different from other places. -- Richard Benjamin
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind. -- Brian Eno
For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment. -- Richard Leakey
When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off. -- J. Tillman
Casseroles don't have to be about canned ingredients and vegetables you normally wouldn't even think of eating alone, much less stuck in between layers of sauce and breadcrumbs. They can vary from everyone's favorite all-time casserole, macaroni and cheese, to the ultimate English casserole, Shepherd's Pie. -- Marcus Samuelsson
I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about. -- Ricky Williams
I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the editing room that's shaped by getting to know the person and digging deeper, unpeeling the layers of them as you get to know them. -- Spike Jonze
I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me. -- Tom Ford
The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but don't fix the underlying problems. -- David Malpass
Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together. -- Steve Jobs
I learned that the majority of the time, simplicity is the best way to go about things as you peel away the layers... that's when you start finding the gold... I can't say that was from my own acting. That was from observing actors like John Spencer and Martin Sheen... I had a chance just to observe. -- Dule Hill
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. -- Anais Nin
All those layers of silence upon silence. -- Donna Tartt
Live in the layers, not on the litter. -- Stanley Kunitz
Father-daughter has a lot of layers, I find. -- Maren Ade
Everyone has different layers to who they are. -- Carmen Electra
Voluptuous and enveloping like layers of precious fabrics -- Elie Saab
I think I have a lot of crazy layers. -- Blythe Danner
There are so many layers of bullshit and everything sounds the same. -- Sarah Barthel
Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world. -- Leza Lowitz
[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense. -- Thornton Wilder
I'm all about flannels and layers, so that's pretty much what I rock. -- Josh Hutcherson
It's taken me a lot of years to peel away my own layers. -- Nick Offerman
I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music. -- Van Morrison
Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin. -- Ian Mcewan
I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability. -- Teri Hatcher
I like visual layers, stylistically, that's something I enjoy and seek to do. -- Heidi Ewing
Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18. -- Albert Einstein
He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers. -- Ray Bradbury
It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers. -- Pawel Pawlikowski
The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers. -- Frances Mayes
I like to keep myself wrapped in layers of sleep and wait for the geraniums. -- Ursula Hegi
Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center. -- Richard Eder
Martina, she's got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives. -- Virginia Wade
Great music has layers of things to discover. I try to do so every night. -- Yuja Wang
I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers. -- Annie Dillard
As an actor, you are always looking for subtext, for layers, for what's going on underneath. -- Antje Traue
When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew. -- Lauren Groff
Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. -- Pope Pius XII
I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives. -- Candace Bushnell
Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration. -- Anne Waldman
Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value. -- Alain de Botton
Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence. -- Paolo Giordano
There's no such thing as being cool. People who pretend to be cool have more emotional layers. -- Lee Yoon-ki
If you are working, almost like with layers of the Grand Canyon, there's history within those layers. -- Leonardo Drew
If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you. -- Oprah Winfrey
There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer. -- Gao Xingjian
It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat. -- Ali Vincent
I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. -- Paul Weller
Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression. -- Paul Rust
Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work. -- Rufus Sewell
I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work. -- Rufus Sewell
I'm looking for richness, complexity, and characters that have different layers and that you don't really get bored of. -- Julian Jarrold
Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated. -- Luanne Rice
Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines. -- Kay WalkingStick
Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another. -- Amit Ray
It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt. -- Lauren Oliver
The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound. -- Alice Sebold
When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche. -- Michele Cassou
The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core. -- Cornelia Funke
I didn't know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core. -- Lauren Slater
Being able to look cute, at all times, while being able to peel off layers is the most essential thing. -- Brad Goreski
Oh, baby. You have no idea what I'd do to get through those layers and down to the good stuff. -- Jennifer Estep
I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me. -- William Gibson
Am I crazy to spend [millions] in contracts when I have the chance to get three layers deep into the playoffs? -- Mark Cuban
It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything. -- Maurice Sendak
Life isn't much more than a big dig through layers of doubt and fear into new levels of power and potential. -- Robin Sharma
Readers can surprise you. Many times, they notice layers in your stories, that even you were not aware of while writing. -- Shon Mehta
It's so fun to play a character that has so many layers that people won't even know, until the next season. -- Ben Schwartz
It was like removing layers of crumpled brown paper from an awkwardly shaped parcel, and revealing the attractive present which it contained. -- Diana Athill
I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context. -- Shimon Attie
Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it. -- Colleen Atwood
There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy. -- Rachel Caine
Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry. -- Derrick Jensen
Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it. -- Linus Roache
I live in L.A., so layers are essential to my wardrobe. I like slim silhouettes, typically, and I love good tailoring. -- Michelle Monaghan
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. -- John Steinbeck
The most complicated character I have ever played - she has many, many, many layers that even I'm not fully aware of. -- Evan Rachel Wood
Even though it's warm here in L.A., people still have to wear layers - at least until their plastic surgery heals. -- Craig Ferguson
The Armenian language cannot be worn out; its boots are stone. Well, certainly, the thick-walled word, the layers of air in the semi-vowels. -- Osip Mandelstam
I think that layers in music, whether it's layers juxtaposing emotions and feelings or layers of texture, make for a more interesting product. -- St. Lucia

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