Quotes About Expression

Even though there are incredible songs floating around Nashville, it's important for me to have my voice heard.

My mother used to dress me in quite good-taste clothes, and I really wanted things that were sparkly and spangly and trashy and nasty. I don't know if I ever chose fashion; it was just there in me.

My raps be crazy, and my hooks are nasty.

I'm sure all the people who have been born 20 years ago don't know anything about me at all except 'LOVE', and that's a nasty word.

When I started making music, I figured the name Rico Nasty would give a background of who I am.

It might be easy to brush away the febrile atmosphere online as a nasty byproduct of free expression: it's less easy when it happens to you.

Cinema is a great binding force for a nation.

I love the national anthem.

Kneeling and gesturing, turning your back on the flag and disrespecting the national anthem is gross, self-indulgent and moronic.

I try to show myself at Liverpool, and when I come to the national team, I try to show myself in training or in games.

I think I should be described as 'bi' - not bisexual, because I'm not - I'm gay - but 'binational' because I retain British nationality, and I add to it being Australian, which is like having your cake and eating it.

I was born Chinese, and I write in Chinese. I don't think there's any need to evade this... to a writer, as to a person, what matters is not his political label or his nationality, but whether he is a person and whether his work is worth looking at.

It's weird to try and identify a nationality for a film.

Bodies have a sex, but gender is a thing we made up, like your star sign or nationality. It doesn't really say anything about who you are. The destruction of gender binary would free everybody.

All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.

Latin is beautiful and has become something of an international language, but there is also something about singing in your native language that has meaning.

I think I always knew I would be a writer some day, but it wasn't until I was grown and had children of my own that I turned to telling Native American stories.

The values that underpin Nato are social democratic values: liberty, democracy, freedom of expression.

The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right.

What's natural is beautiful, and when you're not you anymore, you become a caricature.

Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

I want to be in a more natural state while doing acting.