Quotes About Self-expression

I always like to sing barefoot, but when I first started doing these dates with the symphonies, I of course thought I should clean up my act, being a Jewish girl from Long Island with a little bit of a trucker mouth. So I wore a gown and some high heels.

Everything isn't about synergy.

The synergy created from clothing, hair, and makeup combined is truly amazing, so makeup has been, is, and will be a key factor in establishing my identity as an artist.

At the end of the day, I want to be my own person, I want to be my own performer, and I want to have a finisher that's synonymous with me and not with my mentor.

Nice tights," I snorted. Or I tried to snort, anyway. I'm not exactly sure how, though people in books are always doing it.

Sometimes your body feels like a cage for all the stuff inside. You paint your nails, braid your hair, and buy the right kind of jeans, but none of it is really about you.

She complained there was no 'café au lait'-colored construction paper for her skin, or 'sixty-percent-cacao-chocolate' color for her eyes. I remember staring at her while these words came out of her mouth, and thinking, Your skin is light brown. Your eyes are dark brown. Why don't you just use brown, you idiot? Jay Stringer didn't complain about the paper, and neither did any of the other ten kids using brown.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Even when I'm playing someone named Fat Amy, I'm all about confidence and attitude.

When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool.

I would rather be ostracized than assimilated! I read recently that my greatest accomplishment was my unerring ability to make myself unpopular.

I never set out to make myself unpopular; I just say what I think, so I sometimes rub people up the wrong way, particularly people who parade their ideals before them like a banner and use them to hide behind. And I will keep on saying what I think. I am not prepared to abandon my self-determined existence for an ideology or an ideal.

Be careful not to censor yourself to fit a certain situation or group of people. When we start to censor ourselves we can easily censor ourselves right out of our lives.

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

We are all sculptors and painters. Our material is our own flesh, blood and bones. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Indeed,' I said. That was Nero Wolfe's word, and I never used it except in moments of stress, and it severely annoyed my when I caught myself using it, because when I look in a mirror I prefer to see me as is, with no skin grafted from anybody else's hide, even Nero Wolfe's.

Some spit fire out of their mouths and others juggled balls or pins, their faces painted to look like clowns. Juana wondered if they did that to hide their real faces and not feel ashamed.

But Anne got lucky when she was adopted by people who let her be who she wanted to be, who loved her and praised her for her talents, and who were not afraid to tell her they were proud of her.

No puedes invocar algo en nombre de otra persona, porque no puedes pensar ni sentir por otro. Tu trabajo eres Tú. Cuando sentirte bien se convierte en tu prioridad, esa espléndida frecuencia irradia y alcanza a los que tienes mas cerca

You are the artist. Your emotions are your own creation.

A ratos preocupado porque llevo muchos meses sin escribir, marcado por el vértigo y la circulación social. Reuniones, fiestas, entretenimientos. Decidido a terminar con esa farsa y sentarme a escribir salga como salga, por fin.

If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules

So we did what we always do when there is dissent: nothing. We believe blindly in the virtues of dissent. We don't want a crowd of brainwashed workers. We don't want them to sing company songs, memorize company mission statements, and learn to speak only when spoken to.

No vivía por nadie ni para nadie ni con nadie ni ante nadie ni desde nadie ni según nadie ni en nadie porque vivir en pareja no sólo era una farsa, sino un atajo a la doble personalidad