Quotes About Expression

I'm not becoming western; I am still following my Pashtun culture, and I'm wearing a shalvar kamiz, a dupatta on my head.

I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.

In a Western, you talk more with your eyes and your actions than you do with big speeches. I love that.

Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

Language is powerful. Words matter.

I would say I am one of those people who just love to connect to people doing something I love. Can't lie, love a ballad, so expect big, powerful, emotive stuff from me!

Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.

When we're sad, we slouch. We also slouch when we feel scared or powerless.

I'm really excited for people to be able to see what else I can do besides high heels and magic powers.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

I kinda went back to that period between '88 and '94 where I felt like I was the most creative, without being hindered by powers that be. I was no longer going to try to hinder myself to what I thought was going to be on the radio.

At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller list and see a book by that 14-year-old gymnast, Dominique Moceanu, and I think, 'Now, what's she going to tell the world? And these 25-year-old rock stars, what are they going to tell the world?'

I think I have some advice for both the talent, and the 'powers that be' in professional wrestling. I would say let the guys say it their own way and let them put their own matches together.

In Strapping, I had experimented with a creative catharsis under the assumption that art doesn't need to be accountable for itself, but I found out in very practical ways that you are accountable for everything you say. Everything you write, everything you do becomes not only your identity but your world resonates with it.

When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

It's endless, the amount of things that music touches on that can help kids grow that are very, very practical.

Democracy is extremely complex; it is extremely concrete. It's about constantly choosing, finding, developing practical options within the common good. Constantly searching for how to express in a practical way the common good, not in some grand way, some grand and absolute way, but in a very comfortable way.

Like most genres of literary expression, science fiction in China was subject to instrumentalist impulses and had to serve practical goals.

When I started making music I wanted it to have a narrative and be conceptual, but as time went on I thought it was probably more practical for a first album just to have good music.

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything.