Quotes About Expression

I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.

Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous.

I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.

I purposely didn't change the pronouns in 'Dancing On My Own' so that it was from a gay man's perspective.

Every time I start a new work, I try to be different and to start with a new perspective, so I search for a new idea, something which gives me a new way to access my creativity.

Hip-hop is as much an attitude and perspective as it is a music form.

I do have a right to talk about my life, to tell my truth from my perspective.

It's a new perspective where I got a role in and they are just spewed out of my mouth.

I still write the same way and have the same perspective.

I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don't know of any good writer who is not an outsider writer.

I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.

In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.

I flip the turntables. I write a lot from the male perspective, but as a female. That's how I live my life. I can roll with the boys.

Sometimes I make songs about girls, and I say 'he,' or I'll make songs about guys, and I say 'she,' or sometimes they're exactly what they're about. I feel like it just allows me to get a lot more perspective.

I got into Shakespeare and all of that stuff in high school and then got out of it because it got too complicated. But all of those things just helped me to put words together. It gave me a different perspective.

If anything, I hope to see more players feel comfortable speaking out and sharing their perspectives openly in the future. The game needs more of that in my opinion.

If you can make the best music ever but it requires bringing in a few different perspectives, I'd rather make the best music ever.

When I write songs, I write from a lot of perspectives.

That's what all of us, as writers, actors and comedians, set out to do - shine a light on new perspectives.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.

Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.