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Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world. -- Leza Lowitz
If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you. -- Oprah Winfrey
There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them. -- Annie Leibovitz
Courage is your natural setting. You do not need to become courageous, but rather peel back the layers of self-protective, limiting beliefs that keep you small. -- Vironika Tugaleva
I would say there have been different stages of my feminist awakening. The more layers you peel back and the more things you're made aware of, you're like, "Oh my God." -- Emma Watson
Ke$ha is her art; there is no curtain you peel back to find the real person. And with Ke$ha, you never know what to expect when you're in the studio. -- Benny Blanco
Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today. -- David McCullough
I'm always talking to the writers because I find it so fascinating, how they're able to go to these different levels with the different stories, and have all these layers to peel back. -- Taraji P. Henson
I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach. -- Sally Mann
For some reason, I have always had a really good ability to write children in a way that's realistic but not annoying. The key to that is underwriting them: peel back the dialogue and keep it simple. -- Jeff Lemire
Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction. -- Barack Obama
I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it. -- Damien Rice
It's entirely in your power to regulate the degree to which you peel back the layers of your personality when you disclose yourself to someone. You can keep that person on the surface, or you can allow her to penetrate, by degrees or directly, to the core. -- Harriet B. Braiker
If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know. -- Ted Dekker
I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child. -- Dick Francis
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
I always find it difficult to dress in between seasons, but I quite like putting T-shirts on with a vest over the top and another layer so you can peel them back as the day goes on. -- Poppy Delevingne
The radiation was worse by far. I had bandages all over my head. I looked like a mummy. On the side of my head and neck and down to my collarbone, I had second-degree burns. My skin blistered and peeled before it grew back. That was the worst part of it. -- Bob McNair
I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it's just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man. -- Patti Stanger
For decades I have tried to peel back the layers of mystery surrounding many marine creatures, though most have held tightly to their secrets. One animal that keeps me pondering is the shark. Spellbound by these enigmatic animals since I first encountered them in New England, I never tire of watching their special blend of power and grace. -- Brian Skerry
Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture. -- Jodi Picoult
But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture. -- Jodi Picoult
Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people. -- Jim Highsmith

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