I was a little fat pudgy kid with big thick glasses, and I was quiet and never said a word, you know – teachers loved me, straight-A student.
I have a thick skin.
I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of childhood will not see through every veil.
You know, I have a very thick skin.
I’ve been in the entertainment industry – wresting, but the entertainment industry since 1989; if you have thin skin, you’re going to have a tough time in this town, but I’ve got thick skin.
I love a lot of the ’70s singers: Pam Grier from the ‘Foxy Brown’ movie, Diana Ross, Tina Turner. They’ve always been able to embrace their hair, and they’ve never been afraid to take risks and go all out and make it thick and fun and a statement at the same time.
I’m really spectacularly thick in all areas of my life except comedy and science. I’m crap at everything else.
I don’t think I have thick skin, but I heal fast. It’s easy to break through, but I heal fast.
You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.
You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off a more Moroccan-inspired one.
I have pretty thick eyebrows, so I’m really grateful to Brooke Shields, the first time around, and now Cara Delevingne for making that such a thing. For those of us who were born that way, it’s kind of nice.
Little Axe’s records are wracked with collective grief. Spectral harmonicas resemble howling wolves; echoes linger like wounds that will never heal; the voices of the living harmonise with the voices of the dead in songs thick with reproach, recrimination and the hunger for redemption.
I’m a little Type A, and I have this really thick binder whenever I do a movie where I make a million notes, and in between takes, I’m checking it out.
Even the cleanest air, at the centre of the South Pacific or somewhere over Antarctica, has two hundred thousand assorted bits and pieces in every lungful. And this count rises to two million or more in the thick of the Serengeti migration, or over a six-lane highway during rush hour in downtown Los Angeles.
Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.
I bring values, resiliency, a thick skin, and I’m not afraid to be confrontational. I don’t remember anyone before bringing that to the table.
I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.
When you’re an athlete, you’ve got the horse blinders on pretty thick. Your exploration of other things in life tends to be limited because you have to have such a focus on what you’re doing. I wasn’t a good enough player to stray from that focus and still keep my ability.
Dealing with negative comments is part of this job, and I’ve had to develop a thick skin, though some days it’s easier than others.
I’ve learned to develop a thick skin, but you’re bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it’s rubbed in your face over and over.
How many thick black women are there singing whatever I’m singing, surrounded by rappers, but also from the suburbs? I can’t really judge someone else for judging me!
I’m a confident woman with thick skin, and as a model in the public eye, I’m conditioned to accept criticism.
The worst thing about me is my toes. I’ve thick joints from wearing pointe ballet shoes – I went to a dance school from the age of 11 and danced every day.
I couldn’t figure out what to wear under my clothes. The body shapers were too thick at the time.
When you’re onstage and you know you’re bombing, that’s very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going – you’re bombing, but you can’t stop. And you know that half an hour from now, you’re still gonna be bombing. It takes a thick skin.
I’ll use this Midnight Recovery Oil on my face under makeup to get this really dewy look, and then on my body, I like really rich moisturizers. The one I use is Kiehl’s Creme de Corps just because it’s so thick and lasts.
I’ve grown a thick skin.
For someone with darker hair in the beard area that likes to sometimes sprout during a 14-hour drag day, I must have a thick, yet smooth foundation.
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don’t know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox’s or bear’s, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
Am I ever gonna grow thick skin? No.
My dining room table is just a huge, great thick slab of oak on a beautiful frame. Whenever people come to supper I invite them to carve their name in it.
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
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.
When I was 19, 20, 21, I wasn’t extremely thick.
Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I’ve learned that you shouldn’t take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin – which is so true.
I’ll be honest: I naturally have a pretty good eyebrow shape. I always have. I would get made fun of when I was younger because they were so thick.
I’ve been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen’s accent was just too thick. And for me, I don’t want anything to distract from the character.
It’s always great to have a great mascara that makes your lashes look thick and full. That’s a definite must have.
I love Sunday Riley Hydro Active Face Oil, Clinique Acne Solutions Moisturizer Cream, and Weleda Skin Food if I’m working a lot, since it’s so thick and hydrating.
The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.
The real deal is when you are friends with someone said since ninth standard or college days: the person who has been with you through your struggle and stayed with you through thick and thin.
I have thick hair which is like Plasticine – it’s mouldable. So I’ll fashion it into some creation that looks presentable. I often wear it down because I have a tiny head and small face, and my hair adds volume to help disguise my pinhead.
Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.
In Chicago, I’d audition 3-4 times a week, but when I got out to L.A., there were, like, 4-5 a day, and my skin got really thick.
I feel really comfortable and cute in bikini bottoms that have thick sides.
My first experiences of Colorado travel have been rather severe. At Greeley, I got a small upstairs room at first, but gave it up to a married couple with a child, and then had one downstairs no bigger than a cabin, with only a canvas partition. It was very hot, and every place was thick with black flies.
Extra thick skin is something every Bruce Arians’ quarterback needs to have because the stuff he says to media is rated G compared to the stuff he says to your face on the sideline and after the game in the locker room and throughout the week.
When I was a kid, I got a bob because all of the other girls on my soccer team with straight hair had one, and so I wanted one. Now I know girls with thick, curly hair should not get bobs. My hair was like one big circle.
I’m thick, actually. But it doesn’t bother me. I think I’m really clever.
A workday lunch that lasts as long as a transcontinental flight is an impossibility for all but the most pliant and footloose of food tourists. To get in the game, you need a thick wallet, an adventurous palate, and a whole lot of time.
As NBA coach, people get on you. But politics, maybe even more so at the local level, is nasty on a very personal level. I have a thick skin, but I don’t want to deal with it.
I have thick skin.
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
You have to have really thick skin. Art is obviously there to be criticized and there to be taken in different ways. Not everyone is going to like what you do.
Everyone’s been so quick to say that I’m really thick or I haven’t got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think.
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.
You don’t need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
There’s fresh fish, and then there’s fresh fish. Samoa is ranked as one of the best places for game fishing in all the world, and runs thick in the waters off the island chain. In fact, it’s used as an edible currency in local markets. The day I fished there, we caught loads of yellowfin.
