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Expression Quotes
"Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of."
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"Listen to this, Nimit. Follow Coleman Hawkins' improvised lines very carefully. He is using them to tell us something. Pay very close attention. He is telling us the story of the free spirit that is doing everything it can to escape from within him. That same kind of spirit is inside me, inside you. There--you can hear it, I'm sure: the hot breath, the shivering heart. (Thailand)"
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"Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then."
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"There comes a time to speak your truth and the time is now."
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"The word in your mouth is anarchy."
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"You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search."
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"Math is the language of the head, music is the language of the heart. Of the two, it is music that speaks the most truth."
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"As usual, I shall tell my story badly; and you, as usual, will think me extravagant."
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"Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing."
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"Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication."
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"When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait. It might look like 'Saint George and the Dragon' or 'The Rape of the Sabine Women,' but the angle you use, the lighting, the composition, the technique, they're all you. You are every color and brushstroke."
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"With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do."
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"Colour me with you're intentions."
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"I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to express what is inexpressible, our dreams of otherness, of more."
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"Speech is the index of the mind."
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"There is nothing better than expressions in words."
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"Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. All cheer for Shakespearean insults."
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"The surest of stubborn silences is not to hold one's tongue but to talk."
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"Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down."
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"You write poems with your fingertipsAnd I keep listening to the songs written on my skinBy some distant dream, similar wordsBut the verses never meet."
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"Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?"
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"Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say."
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"A shout for help isn't always a cry of pain, sometimes it is a hymn of praise."
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"Words have the power to open up newer realities, rarefy tour performance, inspire fresh possibilities and free humanity."
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"Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don't trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise."
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"It doesn't matter if I'm off the beat. It doesn't matter if I'm snapping to the rhythm. It doesn't matter if I look like a complete goon when I dance. It is my dance. It is my moment. It is mine. And dance I will. Try and stop me. You'll probably get kicked in the face."
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"Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty."
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"Writing is probably the only form of art, through which you can express, which you would otherwise wouldn't dare to say in person...."
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"I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down."
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"He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart."
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"There is but one art to omit."
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"Tears are words that need to be written."
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"Look at the single words below; wear these emotions on your face for just a moment. Try them on for size and note how they make you feel:Happiness. Fear. Anger. Sadness. Contempt. Surprise. Disgust.These are the basic human emotions which communicate with clear understanding across cultures, languages, and countries. In other words, a smile naturally conveys happiness and a frown naturally conveys sadness, no matter where you may be using your passport."
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"The main thing about ghosts " most of them have lost their voices. In Asphodel, millions of them wander around aimlessly, trying to remember who they were. You know why they end up like that? Because in life they never took a stand one way or another. They never spoke out, so they were never heard. Your voice is your identity. If you don't use it,' Nico said with a shrug, 'you're halfway to Asphodel already.' He hated when his own advice applied to himself."
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"What starts in the heart doesn't stay in the heart, it either turn into action or words."
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"Better thinking out loud than suffocating from frustration. ['The upper lip must never tremble']"
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"But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition- and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation- and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts, to the solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear, which binds men to each other, which binds together all humanity- the dead to the living and the living to the unborn."
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"Poise: a graceful and elegant bearing in person; a composure of dignity and manner.Postures: the position of a person's body when standing, sitting, or walking; carriage, bearing, and stance.Gestures: moving parts of your body to express an idea, opinion, emotion, or meaning."Poise confirms purpose. Postures portray personality. Gestures express emotions. Your poise, postures, and gestures make a powerful statement about who you are and how you feel about yourself. This dynamic trio speaks volumes about you."
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"And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors."
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"One day I finally decided, that there is no point sharing my feelings, You don't enjoy..."
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"When I felt strongly I would say it strongly."
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"Write the words on your heart."
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"A loud mind is greater than a loud mouth."
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"Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe."
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"Speak life. Let your voice be heard around the globe. Speak into existence prosperity, peace, love, happiness. Allow yours words to transcend throughout space and time."
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