Quotes About Expression

With everyone taking to the Internet, the idea is that one can do what one believes in and they will find some audience for it.

The expansive anarchy of the Internet continues to lull us into believing that, because we can see something, that something should be seen. Because we can say something, there is something that must be said.

Now I am at the point people are believing in my music, I couldn't live with myself if I didn't talk about what I believe in.

I've learned ballet for seven years and Kathak and belly dancing for some time.

I think belly dancing is very sensuous.

I do belong on stage.

I want all of my films to belong to me.

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

The arts don't care what your background is. They belong to everyone.

I wanted to belong to the films which were trying to say something.

I just can't belong to a genre, because I don't know what I would want it to be.

Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.

The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It belongs to the film.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

One belongs to one's language as a writer.

Where I come from, music is not a business. Sharing music is a business, but music is not a business. It comes from the people and belongs to the people.

Sometimes I turn the TV just below where you can hear it and write down what I think they might be saying by the mumbles and rhythms.

Boy George always told me to stop noodling; he wanted me to belt like Ethel Merman.

A woman and a dress, very often, fight against each other because they are not at the same place. Sometimes you see the woman moving the belt around. She is making the robe her own. She needs that. Otherwise, the dress doesn't exist.

There is much to be said for the conscious expression of anger, and it is well known medically and psychologically that suppressing anger in the sense of internalizing it is unhealthy

His struggle to mold me in his image had been successful after all. The old walrus in fact managed to instill in me a great and burning ambition; it had simply found expression in an unintended pursuit. He never understood that the Devils Thumb was the same as medical school, only different.

People just wanted to open their mouths and talk, and they didn't much mind what came out.

Gerould observed: "America is no longer a free country, in the old sense; and liberty is, increasingly, a mere rhetorical figure….The only way in which an American citizen who is really interested in all the social and political problems of his country can preserve any freedom of expression, is to choose the mob that is most sympathetic to him, and abide under the shadow of that mob.