Quotes About Expression

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

I still do the standard editorial cartoon: that is my bread and butter. I absolutely love doing that.

All the academy will tell you that the language that is familiar to you is not appropriate. and that's not to say that there shouldn't be a standard, but when I come to school with my friends' language, my grandmother's language, the language in my mouth - you're going to tell me that's improper?

As many have said before me, artists are creative people who can't be dragged into the politics of nations. I have always made a concerted effort to maintain this standard for myself.

I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as a fun project for me though, I'm still not sure about releasing it.

As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.

In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.

Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

I'm not very good at standard English.

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.

Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

I want makeup to be more about freedom of expression. If I want to put on makeup and make myself look different, I can, but it's not a standard for every single day.

If the standard for art is the decency of its creators, we're going to have a lot of empty museums.

When I was in eighth standard, I have been dancing since then. I love to dance. Dance has been my life all this while. Then I became a dance instructor. I have learnt jazz, hip-hop, ballet and many other forms.

I wouldn't be doing my job, or holding myself to that standard that I see fit, if I just shut my mouth and played the game.

Drag can make you a little more fearless and I think girls especially love drag because they get to see somebody define their own standard of feminine beauty.

That was something we were trying to figure out: Are we allowed to do a jazz song? Are we allowed to do cabaret? Just from hearing the Beatles, it was like, 'Well, they did it. It's okay to write something other than a standard rock song.'

If anything, even though I can play in the sort of standard string-bending style, in the B.B. King mold and all of that, I've always had a great interest in the more primitive playing, the open chord playing, rhythm and figures.

It's a lot more interesting to dig into the popular music from where I'm from than adhere to some kind of standardized global pop.

I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

I'd like to shut off all the noise and allow people to be creative without all the judgments and standards that we think we have to follow.

What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.