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Quotes About Expression

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
~ Manuel Puig
I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then we are able to sustain ourselves in spite of ourselves.
~ Ntozake Shange
Punk may have helped me find my voice and made me realise that I had the right to have one, but it was riot grrrl that helped me sustain that voice and shout a little louder.
~ Kate Nash
What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.
~ David Guterson
One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.
~ Tracy Letts
Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
~ Harmony Korine
We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give more energy, or otherwise, it goes and it dies in silence. And therefore, sound is absolutely, inextricably connected to time, the length of time.
~ Daniel Barenboim
I can speak Hindi, but I can't sustain it over a whole movie.
~ Sarita Choudhury
When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain.
~ John Petrucci
It's okay to do a small role in mainstream cinema like 'Aurangzeb' or 'Yaariyan.' But it's films like Rituparno Ghosh's 'Memories Of March' and Avinash Kumar Singh's 'Listen Amaya' that sustain me as an actress.
~ Deepti Naval
It really gets my back up when people start using business phrases - 'sustainability,' 'the brand,' etc. - about rugby.
~ Alun Wyn Jones
Our job in gospel is not going away. It's a sustainable genre. It sells - without question.
~ Marvin Sapp
I would love to design clothes. Bretman clothing would be a good reflection of my personality, with a super-extra, nonbinary, and non-gendered clothes that are made with quality sustainable fabrics.
~ Bretman Rock
I don't make a particular distinction between 'high art' and 'low art.' Music is there for everybody. It's a river we can all put our cups into and drink it and be sustained by it.
~ John Williams
I became a musician because I love music, and that is what has sustained me; it's not because I thought it was a great way to make a living. Music saved my life.
~ David Sanborn
I've done a few things on the side here and there, but there is not much reason to do so in a sustained way. I'm generally able to say what I want to say within the context of Weezer.
~ Rivers Cuomo
Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.
~ Ellen Key
It is upon the length and breadth and span of a body sustained in muscular action that dance invokes its image.
~ Merce Cunningham
Early on, I tried to sing, but sustaining a note was something I wasn't comfortable with. So I tried to get off of the note as soon as I could.
~ Dion DiMucci
I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
~ C. K. Williams
There's some beautiful filmmaking on television. I'm getting a lot of my artistic sustenance from what's happening there.
~ Chris Pine
Mainstream Mumbai movies are my bread and butter, but films like 'Brick Lane' and 'Road, Movie' provide sustenance to my creative soul.
~ Satish Kaushik
The song of the blues, the song of the music, was something a lot of people missed out on. They thought they had to swagger a certain way or bark at the mic, and you don't have to do that.
~ Taj Mahal
'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
~ Nate Powell