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Emily Procter begins each workday at 5 A.M. by dancing around the house to the sounds of Earth, Wind and Fire - or whatever catchy tune is playing on her clock radio. "It helps me get moving in the morning," explains Procter, who plays ballistics expert Calleigh Duquesne on CSI: Miami. The 34 year-old actress even gets her groove on between takes of the CBS crime drama.
"I'll dance whenever I have a spare moment," says the North Carolina native, who also takes regular Pilates and yoga classes and uses an indoor stationary cycle to stay fit. "I'm a very hyper person, so I love being active. Working out is a great way for me to burn off some of my excess energy."
[Fitness Magazine, March 2003] / quotes and photo from emilyprocter.com
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 .. .. The men were harder to place: dark-haired, olive-skinned, high mustache quotient. They were making a show of being rich, but they weren't quite getting it right. // "If you'll excuse me, there's someone I need to bring over. Oh look, there's Jennifer..." Melissa powered off, still talking, leaving Olivia standing on her own. |
For
a throwback second, she felt residual feelings of insecurity. She
stamped
on them hard, as if they were a beetle or cockroach.
Olivia used to hate going to parties. She was too sensitive to the signals given off by other people to glide through any social gathering unscathed. She liked to have proper conversations, not mindless insincere moments, and she could never quite master the art of moving smoothly from group to group. As a result, she used to spend entire evenings feeling either hurt or rude. *Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination - |
 .. .. The director was thinking of going with a more androgynous look. So, I said, 'I can do androgynous! I'm a boy!' So, I took pictures of myself like a boy and flew to New York a second time to audition. At this point I was having thoughts like, You'll never work again, you'll fail. |
A
few days later I was crying in the Chicago airport, and I got this
message
from my manager saying, 'Call me as soon as you land!'
When they told me I had gotten the part, I started crying -- even harder. These airport people came up to me and said, 'Are you okay?' I was sitting in the middle of this big hallway in the Chicago O'Hare airport, sobbing crying and saying 'I'm so happy! I'm so happy!' These women were staring at me like This girl is having a nervous breakdown, which I was. It was a little dramatic. Alison Pill from interview Five things you should know about Alison Pill [about
her movie Confessions of a Teenage from
Alison Pill's Metropolis site
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| Mulholland
Drive (2001) was in the can at that point. I was pretty sure it was
good
and would make some noise, but I wasn't trusting my instincts because
I'd
been through that before.
So my agents were continuing to send me out for pilots. I had no money, no health insurance, and I was going on all these auditions for things I didn't believe in but that I was desperate for because I needed the work. As a result, I was shaky and intense and nervous and laughing or smiling too much, and I was making people uncomfortable. It was awkward. So my then agent called me in and... said, "Honey, you're a great actress and I believe in you, so I took it on myself to ask these people what's going on because you should be working. They're saying that your'e too intense, that you want it too much." |
 .. .. I would probably still be on some TV series today. I wouldn't have had the freedom to pursue the things I"ve been able to do over the past few years. Naomi
Watts |
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I
think I was born with a great awareness of my surroundings and an
awareness
of other people. I know when I really connect with somebody...
Sometimes that awareness is good, and sometimes I wish I wasn't so sensitive. I'm so happy I'm not walking around life with a cloud over my head, not really knowing which way to look or which way to turn. But then, on the other hand, sometimes you don't wanna see what's behind people's doors. Scarlett Johansson****[Interview mag., July, 2001] |
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| I
was thinking that I might fly today Just to disprove all the things that you say It doesn't take a talent to be mean Your words can crush things that are unseen
So please be careful with me, I'm sensitive You
always tell me that it's impossible
Oh please be careful with me, I'm sensitive |
I
was thinking, that it might do some good If we robbed the cynics and took all their food That way what they believe will have taken place And we'll give it to everybody who has some faith
Oh please be careful with me, I'm sensitive I have
this theory, that if we're told we're bad 'Cause
anyone can start a conflict We
are everyday angels |
 .. .... from song I'm Sensitive by Jewel Kilcher - from her debut album Pieces of You *her book: Chasing Down the Dawn |
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The pressure of being in the public eye is, well -- so many young women come in here healthy, and a year later they're stick thin. People are looking at you, all the time. Judging you. But, I'm the one who chose to put myself out there. I guess I'm way too sensitive.
A.J. Cook ... [Toronto Sun, January 31, 2003] / photo: as Kimberly in Final Destination 2
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From the time I was five until I was 17 [I took ballet lessons]. It was my dream. It helped me become very disciplined physically. It enabled me to move energy through my body. For those who are very empathetic and sensitive to other people, movement is essential because it enables them to disperse energies that aren't always theirs. You can get back into your own energy field very, very fast with physical movement. So I was very devoted to movement and have been ever since.
Leigh Taylor-Young..... [from interview in Body Mind Spirit magazine - posted on her site lty.com
. ~ ~ ~ ~I do not much like being touched and I have always to make a slight effort not to draw away when someone links his arms in mine.Somerset Maugham, English novelist
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It's so weird that people think I'm strong and courageous. I feel I am so sensitive; I overcome my weaknesses through my work, because there were times in the past that I just wanted to crawl into a little ball and hide in a cave. Ellen DeGeneres.. [Liz Smith column, January 31, 2003]
photo from her book My Point - And I Do Have One
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 .. .. It was like a desire or necessity to communicate feelings and emotions. Sometimes I feel we express more with dancing or acting or painting than with words. My parents took me to dance lessons because I had so much energy. I was a very intense child. .... I had a very big crisis when I was sixteen because I was over-exhausted. I thought I could do everything, but it was all too much for my body and my mind. ... |
I
was stressed and made a sickness out of it. I had a horrible, horrible
breakdown. It was just huge, like the worst period of my life, and it
lasted
for a couple of months.
I have only had two crises like that -- when something inside stings, like you are eliminating something. Both times it was because I was over-stressed. .... [The other time was when] I went to Calcutta for a documentary for a Spanish foundation to raise money for kids. We can raise a lot of money for these girls that were living in the street and are now in a house studying. So I couldn't delay it. But when I came back here, I broke down -- and also because of everything I saw in India. There is more pain there than you can imagine. I couldn't even cry from what I was seeing because I had to work. So you become like a stone. And then once I left, everything came out. ... I decided I had two choices: I could go down, or up. So I quit smoking and started a much healthier diet, and started meditating again. Penelope
Cruz ...
[from interview article by |
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I felt like Superman, which is probably what has allowed me to be here with such a happy heart, because Hollywood can bruise sensitive people quickly. It's not that I'm not sensitive; I'm incredibly sensitive, but I feel like I'm able to leap tall buildings and come down on the other side and land on my feet somehow.
screenwriter Anne Meredith - from interview
poster for Supergirl (1984)
Mutant Kitty Pryde can walk through walls. Actress Katie Stuart tends to run into them. "It's not so much that I'm clumsy... I just have too much energy - I tend to move before I think." ..
[nwitimes.com May 07, 2003]
Kitty Pryde is a character in the movie "X2 - X-Men United" [dvd]
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"For some of us, even a little Times Square is too much." - photo by Nina Berman / Aurora - from Time mag.
Maybe you cut the designer tags off the insides of your clothes because their tiny tickle drives you nuts. Maybe you stick a Post-it note over your blinking e-mail icon because the flashing distracts you. Maybe you run an air conditioner in November to drown out the sound of a car alarm that doesn't seem to bother anyone else. If this is you, take heart. You're not necessarily becoming an intolerant crank; rather, you may be suffering from a spanking-new syndrome called sensory defensive (SD) disorder.
That's the theory behind the new book Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight (HarperCollins) by developmental psychologist Sharon Heller. It's a theory worth heeding, Heller says, because the disorder, left untreated, can lead to hypertension, intestinal problems, even heart disease.
Minting a new emotional condition is tricky, but Heller may be on to something. Forty years ago, occupational therapists recognized a similar condition in hyperactive children called tactile defensiveness. Heller expands on that in the context of today's hyperstimulating world.
She believes that up to 15% of adults may suffer from some form of sensory defensiveness. One person avoids driving at night because he can't tolerate headlights reflecting in his rearview mirror. Another can't relax until she washes a musty-smelling dishrag in the next room.
Says Heller: "Sensory defensiveness is when your reaction to stimuli starts to govern the choices you make in your life."
[from article: Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, by Jeffrey Kluger,
Time Magazine Nov. 17, 2002].......~ ~
Sleeping in a bed makes Emir feel lost in space. So he sleeps on his living room couch, his back against the hard surface and his legs pushed up against the raised end. He thrives on heat and eschews air-conditioning for the breeze of the open window and a ceiling fan.
Since most clothes make him squirm, he wears as few as possible. His car radio blasts with hard rock, but he cringes at the sound of someone chewing their food in a quiet room.
When he's outside, the sun blinds him, and he must wear sunglasses or he gets a headache. Inside, lights must be dim. At night, he illuminates his house mostly with eucalyptus- or jasmine-scented candles, scents that relax him.
Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight - by Sharon Heller, PhD~ ~ ~ ~
"I'm a very sensitive person. I hurt real easy and real deep, which is why I think I have to write songs, [and] why so many of them fit the feelings of so many people that can't write. It's because I feel everything to my core." Dolly Parton [checkout.com]
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When it comes to beddy-bye.. Jennifer Lopez is something of a modern-day Sleeping Beauty. Whenever she checks into a hotel, no matter how ritzy, she always brings her own sheets because she says she can't sleep on anything with a thread count of less than 250. Cathy Griffin column, Beverly Hills 213 May 29 2002
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Sometimes I get so weird I even freak myself out
I laugh myself to sleep it's my lullabye
Sometimes I drive so fast just to feel the danger
I want to scream it makes me feel alive ...
I'd rather be anything than ordinary pleasefrom lyrics of Anything But Ordinary - by Avril Lavigne
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The intricate thought processes that mark these individuals as gifted are mirrored in the intricacy
of their emotional development. Idealism, self-doubt, perceptiveness, excruciating sensitivity, moral imperatives,
desperate needs for understanding, acceptance, love -- all impinge simultaneously.Their vast emotional range makes them appear contradictory: mature and immature, arrogant and compassionate,
aggressive and timid. Semblances of composure and self-assurance often mask deep feelings of insecurity.
The inner experience of the gifted young person is rich, complex, and turbulent.~ ~
The gifted are by nature emotionally sensitive. In our studies at the Gifted Development Center, we have found that this
characteristic appears in the first few years of life and remains with the individual throughout life."
from article "Sensitivity" by Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D.~ ~ ~ ~
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