Quotes About Vulnerability

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know I shouldn't say it in this day and age but I'm absolutely useless without a man. There isn't a moment I don't miss Charlie. I never get anything right. I can't work out the buttons on the TV remote control. Parking the car is a nightmare even though it's only a Toyota Prius and it isn't that big.

The truth was important. The truth mattered. It mattered more than the fact that he was only twelve and that his story was completely preposterous. People like Granny, all bullies in fact, only managed to survive because they lived behind the truth. Once people knew them for what they were, they would be powerless.

She had a brittle quality, as if she needed charity herself, but knew that she would never get it. The tragedy that had changed her life was still with her.

Alex was surrounded by 7 of the most dangerous and unpredictable people on the planet. It was just a question of which one would kill him first.

You're never too young to die.

An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like.

Craig has explored the darker recesses of 007's psyche. He has shown us the lonely man. And he has shown him falling truly in love.

Sylvia Plath wasn't scared of exploring the darker side of her psyche.

I have protection. I have police protection. I have personal bodyguards. I have three sets of them. But believe me, this is really psychological for the family. If they want to get me, they can get me. And every time that I have been saved, it's been by coincidence.

I am not easy to break through to. There is a protective shield that I have built psychologically. I am not open to everyone as I have been to ones those who have broken through me. But once you break through, I will love anything that you do.

I'd go into the pub and start crying even before I'd had my first drink.

You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.

It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.

Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.

Sometimes I got scared of being too honest, because being in the public eye, I have always tried to hide my personal life. But I realized that isn't healthy.

If you're in the public eye, people are going to take shots at you.

Being in the public eye, with the Internet - it's scary. You can put out too much, and it becomes a part of the pie chart of who you are. Things stick. And they never go away.

I think people in the public eye have a problem - they can have security issues.

Being in the public eye and seeing yourself on film and in photographs, that can be tough.

I'd rather go on stage and talk or do public speaking than sing. Singing is very scary. It's very exposing.

I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there.

Say something personal, not from a publicist.

We can all accept criticism of creative work, but to be publicly ridiculed for it is incredibly difficult to deal with.