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Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another. -- Juliette Binoche
Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are mine. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. -- Alan Watts
Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives. -- Douglas Coupland
It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself. -- Patty Duke
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
Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it. -- Marian Keyes
So much of life was the peeling away of illusions. -- Matthew Thomas
It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while. -- Arthur Golden
Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart. -- Anne Rice
I think of my work as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath. -- Shimon Attie
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
Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had. -- Lynda Barry
You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with peeling back the personality from this lifetime. -- Frederick Lenz
The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels away the layers of unreality. . . eventually only the core remains. -- Meredith L. Young-Sowers
All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane. -- Stephen Spender
I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples. -- Erica Jong
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
Don't bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING.... The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely miss the point.... Seriously. Keep peeling the onion and you get no onion. -- Vera Nazarian
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
Newton had a very good description of gravity, back in the day, and then Einstein came along and dug a little bit deeper. Science is like peeling an onion. You go deeper and deeper and deeper, and it doesn't stop. It's not like you will get to a right answer. -- Dallas Campbell
The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead. -- Olive Schreiner
I remember when I was in the army, we had the toughest drill sergeant in the world. He'd get right up next to your face and yell, and if you didn't have the right answers, mister, you'd be peeling potatoes or chainging the latrine. Hey, wait. I wasn't in the army. Then who WAS that guy?! -- Jack Handey
I've been gone on the road for the past three years; maybe I've been home for two or three weeks in a year. I literally live - it's like one of those old movies where they show a train, and pages of a calendar are peeling away like leaves, and then there's a picture of me with gray hair. -- Chris Isaak
Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call "existence." Think of one and minus one. Together they add up to zero, nothing, nada, niente, right? Picture them together, then picture them separating-peeling apart. ... Now you have something, you have two somethings, where once you had nothing. -- John Updike
I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking. -- Sam Claflin
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
I bashed myself. I cut myself. I caught on fire. I fell: I had been myopically focused on peeling garlic, and hadn't noticed a bin of beef at my feet until I walked into it. -- Bill Buford
All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch. -- Bat for Lashes
Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was. -- Judi Dench
I can't stand quitters. My mother is a very strong, determined woman. I was peeling onions when I was seven, but I walked off when my eyes began to sting. She said to me, 'You start something and you finish it', and that stuck with me. I'm persistent. -- Estelle
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
He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers. -- Ray Bradbury
I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments. -- Stanislaw Lem
Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts. -- Holly Black
Umm... So I just realized Ive been peeling bananas wrong my entire life. Thank you animal planet. -- Miles Teller
If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another. It's like peeling an onion. -- Lemony Snicket
Wrapping Christmas presents is tough. Even peeling a Mandarin orange is tough. I have to get my kids to help me. -- Brendan Morrison
Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana. -- Rick Yancey
Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death. -- Emil Nolde
It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of meaninglessness. -- Janet Fitch
Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self. -- John D. MacDonald
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
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
The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that have misinformed us. -- Sam Keen
You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with peeling back the personality from this lifetime. -- Frederick Lenz
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

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