Quotes About Expression

I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.

Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.

I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.

Jeez banana! Shut your freaking gob!

Juno: Honest to blog?

His expression seems a sort of surrender: the loss of a thing that he has already lost before.

Georgia tutted under her breath. 'I'm loud sometimes,' she said, thinking So bloody what if I'm quiet - what's the thing about it?

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

I like the book ask my mood ring How a I Feel.

The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.

Tollers, there is too little of what we really like in stories. I am afraid we shall have to try and write some ourselves.

When you look at the lives of innovators, there is often little distinction between work and play. And when creative people make it a point to spend time together, new ideas and joint projects emerge with little effort, a natural part of the rhythm of each day.

Do you...want to grab a slice of pizza or something?" I blurted out. He hesitated. "You want to be seen in public with..." a microsecond pause, "...your face looking like that?" I cocked my head to the side. "The real question is, do you want to be seen in public with a face like this?" "I'd consider it." He stood, his expression still wary.

She knew that the paint and the clothes and the hair were more than fashion for Persis Blake. They were armor.

Do you know what you need?" Malcolm was saying now. To get laid, I thought. "To get laid," Malcolm said. Shocker.

So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.

I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that so this was just a step for me in that direction.

in these stories, written with no particular reader in mind, she found the key to freeing the small boy trapped in the wrong body, a salve to the gender quandary that so dismayed her when every expectation was for her to be a girl with curls.

It's not about the dress you wear, but it's about the life you lead in the dress.

Pale pink salmon is the only color I cannot abide––although, naturally, I adore pink. I love the pale Persion pinks of the little carnations of Provence and Schiaparelli's pink, the pink of the Incas…And though it's so vieux jeu I can hardly bear to repeat it––pink is the navy blue of India.

We are not looking for endless variety--we are looking for fashion." February 10, 1967, Memo re HAIR ON SITTINGS

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.