Quotes About Expression

We're moving away from the one-dimensional nature for women. It used to be that you were known for one thing - a cultural thing, the way you walk, talk or look. Now everybody is allowed to be a layer cake.

If you only play metal, it's going to be very apparent that you're a one-dimensional drummer.

I didn't want to be a one-hit wonder. I really wanted to make albums that had a different aesthetic every album and a different sound.

Twitter is basically just writing a bunch of one-liners - it's a short form or whatever.

Twitter is comedy writing. It's one-liners that give way to fully fleshed-out thoughts.

I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn't really my thing.

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

I just thought that if you are going to do a one-woman show you need to come with it, you know? Don't just stand there doing characters. You need to have something to say.

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.

In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.

What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.

I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.

In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one experiences oneself during the process of writing.

To become a better actor, one needs to look inwards and understand oneself better. Then, you can create magic on screen.

I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.

The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.

Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying.

The people who are writing online and the people in my genre of creative non-fiction exert a great deal more freedom that journalists are allowed to exert in their day-to-day work.

Maybe it's because I'm an only child or just an extroverted person, and I'm a kind of a ham, you know?

I love to sing, but I really only love to do it when it goes along with acting, when it's my character singing. I'd rather not do an album or tour.

You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is determined. You can write anything you want, but only one thing works.