Mickalene Thomas Quotes

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

I think we're all sensitive; everyone has a certain way about themselves that people don't like to let their emotions out too often. I think people tend to suppress them and hold them in, so I think there's a bit of that in me.

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

I keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn't me.

I'm not an emotional person. I don't use the emotion train that much. I just use the happy card.

My emotions are usually my weakness, but they are my strength while acting.

I don't cry about anything.

Diego Costa doesn't show any emotion. I am more emotional. So I have learned to control my emotions.

I don't cry unless it's personal.

I'm not an emotional fighter.

Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.

Part of the problem with America is that letting go of emotions is viewed as a weakness, but it's my strength. That enabled me to write my songs.

Crying is not an option.

My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all.

Crying is not a weakness. It's something that should be able to work for you. It should also be a strength. I think if you can cry when you feel like crying it's a strength. If you feel like crying and you can't cry, that's a weakness. That means you're holding all that stuff inside.

I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

Having a thick skin doesn't mean that you're hard or harsh. I was lucky because I was born with a thick skin. That doesn't mean that things don't bother me, but you have to keep it in perspective.

I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

I don't really like being emotional. Public displays of emotion, I don't really do that sort of stuff. I don't know why. I would like to be the type that doesn't worry about that.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.