Quotes About Expression

I love being part of a company, and telling a story.

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member.

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.

I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don't give people that, they feel like you are being fake and you're not telling the truth. So it's like, you want me to tell the truth, but when I do, it's too much for you.

Rage is a really fun place to dance from - expressions of anger sublimated into something beautiful are invigorating, especially if you feel like you're telling the truth.

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.

I've always been an artist who's about being real and about telling the truth and making music with integrity and talking about something.

As far as rapping goes, as long as you are telling the truth and you have a good flow, then you win.

You can be very honest without telling the truth, at least in art.

My job is to work at song writing and singing and telling the truth in song writing. My job is to be courageous enough to go on stage and tell the truth, the same truth that's gone into my song writing.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

I don't like the idea that the first preparation when you start to design your building has to put your label. I think this is not fair. It's not fair to the building or to the people, to the client, because every building tells a different story.

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.

On the ice, I feel like I can become a different person, and the darker dramatics, the Black Swan, is confident: she's free to do whatever she wants, and that attitude helps in my skating. The White Swan is, I feel, more what I'm actually like off the ice: I'm a lot quieter, and if someone tells me to do something, I'll just do it.

I think you'll always be able to do what your ear tells you.

I enjoy clothes. My mother tells me how, even as a kid, I used to choose my own clothes. I have a feel for it, and I do the costume coordination for my photo shoots as well. Many a time, even my characters wear the clothes I choose.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

It's important that the way you dress tells a story and reveals something about you and your philosophy.