Maryam D'Abo quote: "In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away."

The people, they relate to me. In my life, I've had a lot of heartache. I lost friends after my brai...
JERMAINE WILLIAMS

I felt very vulnerable after 'Sleeping with the Fishes'; I gained weight for the role. I fel...
GINA RODRIGUEZ

In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he ...
MARGERY ALLINGHAM

I feel as if my rights have been stripped away. After a fleeting three-year relationship, I feel I'm...
CHERYL PIKE BARLOW

I've done a fair share of stupid things in my life, a couple of which should have put me in the grav...
CRAIG WILSON

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.
RICHARD HAMMOND

My mother was very ill when I was 18. She had a brain operation and then a nervous breakdown. It'...
EMILIA FOX

I remembered some people who lived across the street from our home as we were being taken away. When...
GEORGE TAKEI

In treatment, all of the negative things I did were stripped away and I had to start processing my f...
DEMI LOVATO

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as ...
HEDY LAMARR

I felt pretty good out there. I had my fastball and change-up. I've been working a lot in the bullpe...
CLAUDIO VARGAS

I felt like a piece of my heart had been taken away from me, not knowing if I would ever see her aga...
CARL DODD

I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—
As if my Brain had split—
I tried to match it—Seam by ...
EMILY DICKINSON

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER

It's an amazing feeling. It's the best I've played in a long, long time. I really felt comfortable o...
ARNAUD CLEMENT

I'm an illegal alien and have been for many years. If you rub my skin, I go green.
CLAIRE FORLANI

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for t...
WINSTON CHURCHILL

If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them...
C.S. LEWIS

Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very f...
HA-JOON CHANG

If we had lost this game, it would've been really bad, not only for us, but for our coaches. I don't...
LANCE THOMPSON

The audience comes away with experiencing everything from comedy to tears as these scenes deliver th...
HAROLD GOULD

I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I...
OSAMU DAZAI

I should have been delighted had it come to a fight. I felt absolutely sure of myself with a pistol ...
MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN

I've never had a body issue; I've never had a self-confidence issue, and there's been ve...
ZENDAYA

As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and t...
ALLYSON SCHWARTZ

I have always felt like a pawn... My skin color's been a curse, my missionary parents made me sober ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say...
HENRY ROLLINS

Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable.
SALLY MANN

I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a...
MAGGIE WHEELER

My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my che...
MEREDITH T. TAYLOR

About a quarter of the skin of her eye had already been eaten away.
JAMIE MCCOURT

There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost m...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

This is as weird as it gets. I've never been in a game that felt anything like this, that starts wit...
DAVID CARTER

Everything my family owned had been washed away before my eyes. I lost all hope of normalcy.
AJAY MANGAL

I had been a Maoist, and then when the Gang of Four was overthrown, I was completely distraught. I w...
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN

My Miracle, living through a Traumatic brain Injury
RODNEY BARNES

I felt lost. Far more lost than I had ever been before.
STEPHANIE SKEEM

I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.
NEIL GAIMAN

I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like ...
TAMALA JONES

You know, I felt very vulnerable.
FRAN DRESCHER

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away fro...
MICHELLE WILLIAMS

It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost.
DENIS THATCHER

But there's a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip, and if I'm away from the machine for...
BRIAN LUMLEY

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who ...
MICKEY MANTLE

I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee a...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I felt the earth shake and a strong gust of wind, then I felt mud at my feet. All the children, incl...
DIDITA KAMARENTA

Now we have lasers that can improve the quality of skin without removing a layer of skin. It's calle...
DAVID GOLDBERG

I was horrified to see all of those bites all over my body. I became very upset and alarmed. I was m...
LESLIE FOX

I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunat...
VINCE MCMAHON

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendenc...
JACK DEE

I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself ...
AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN

I could not feel, smell, see, hear, or taste the world around me. If I had allowed myself to experie...
YEONMI PARK

I haven't been playing offense very well. Tonight, finally, it came together. [Softball coach Tim Wa...
BROOKE JOHNSON

My wife's been gone a year, but I felt like this is something I needed to do. I have been pretty suc...
JEFF CARTY

Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go ...
JO NESBO

If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS...

With the costs that have been stripped out of a lot of companies, any pick-up in business they see f...
DEREK MITCHELL

I felt good today. I lost 6-3 to the No. 1 guy in the state, and I got pinned by him last time. It g...
JOSH NEWMAN

Each day I was more vulnerable than the last. Each day he stripped away more of my sense of self. An...
C.J. ROBERTS

I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed ...
JOSEPH CONRAD

My heart and soul have been deeply impacted. I feel as if I have come to a juncture in my very long ...
LOIS SUGARMAN

Working as a teaboy may have helped my confidence, but not everyone else was so pleased. I could nev...
RICK ASTLEY

Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN

In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do tha...
JULIAN ASSANGE

He felt comfortable in so many different situations. He had the respect of world leaders and the com...
AL CADE

There have been cases where, through physical injury, people have had the emotional center of the br...
ADAM KING

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, ...
MICKEY MANTLE

Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE

There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES

I think they felt, and I think many blacks would have felt the same way, that you were cheering that...
ED GORDON

My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your bra...
MAX BARRY

In 'Straight Talking,' I had bared my soul, and the press attention had been overwhelming. T...
JANE GREEN

You have no idea how many doors closed on me and how many adults were either initially reluctant to ...
KENDALL JENNER

As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who ha...
TIMOTHY MURPHY

I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
MAMIE VAN DOREN

We have been in too many of these games in the last couple years, where we had a chance to put a tea...
JOEY HARRINGTON

I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy child...
LISA LUTZ

To me, being creative is a very fragile thing, and somehow I've always felt the need to be very prot...
HOLLY HUNTER

Many people, myself, had confidence in Montesinos because (he) succeeded very much with fighting ter...
ALBERTO FUJIMORI

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't wh...
JOHNNY UNITAS

"People betrayed me and I had a really hard time. That, along with what I'd been through with my fam...
CHRISTINA AGUILERA

I've had more acne as an adult than I had as a teenager. After weaning babies, my skin's gon...
JENNIFER GARNER

I had to use my brain to win that race. I felt good although the conditions were not great. But when...
FELIX LIMO

I felt the momentum start to change, but I never lost confidence in our team. Never for a second.
JEFF CAVALLO

I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my br...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied wit...
TA-NEHISI COATES

In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of ...
EAVAN BOLAND

You put the brain to sleep a little bit so it doesn't have to do as much work. It's a sort of protec...
DR. JAMES VALERIANO

My injury happened during the match, ... I went to hit an overhand and it felt like I basically hype...
SANIA MIRZA

Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him ...
TAMORA PIERCE

He had the confidence of a man who had never been wounded.
VICTOR HUGO

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers,...
ROLAND BARTHES

We have a bill which to my way of thinking has stripped out very significant reforms.
HOWARD BERMAN

I was influenced by many, many different people in my student years, and I was always, I guess, imme...
ALAN G. POINDEXTER

My whole 'WWE' career has been rebuilding myself and finding the confidence that I once had....
BECKY LYNCH

I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. E...
DARIO FO

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away.

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Maryam D'Abo

In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away.

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