Quotes About Self-expression

Be satisfied with the fact that although your art or talent may never be accepted by the world as anything 'great', and may never be your career, it can be used to enrich your day by day life:enrich it for you, and for the people with whom you live.... and come to the recognition of the fact that it is important for you to BE creative in this area to the extent of your talent: important for you as a person who IS a creative creature.

Flourishing is the heart of prospering—engagement, meeting challenges, self-expression, and personal growth.

Nothing I did or said among the other boys came to me naturally. As a result, in every encounter, even the most glancing, I had to be a performer, for at all times I was aware I was impersonating a human being.

All right, Go ahead! What's in a name? I guess I'll be locked into As much as I'm locked out of!

What should I be but just what I am?

Mi pantalonai. Me li infilai, come se stessi amputandomi le gambe. Adesso, mi dissi, per te tutto il mondo sarà in flanella grigia. L'avevo indossata, ne avevo fatto un sacco per chiuderci dentro l'infanzia. Come mi sentivo? Superiore? Vecchio? Saggio? Più pesante? Più forte? Mi trovavo eretto e diretto e di bell'aspetto, lusingato e favorevolmente impressionato? No, per niente.

If I've only one life, let me live it as a blonde.

Nothing comes between me and my Calvins.

What do nudists wear on casual Fridays?

If we were meant to be nude, we would have been born that way.

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

It's not what you wear - it's how you take it off.

I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.

Say your thing and get out of here. And if they profit, that's fine, and if they don't, too bad!

and she is so afraid to try her French that she goes to bed hungry.

and am able to say exactly what I like without being called to account, and have complete freedom to do whatever I choose.

You must do what you want.

Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

I think of myself more as a director than as an actress. But I do like to perform and express myself in different ways, and I'll keep on doing so, provided I can find interesting roles.

To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.

Everything that I have is natural - braid, nails - I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.

I have spent most of my adult life proving that I existed. A blog is an accessible way of doing this - there is a date and place in cyberspace that I existed a year ago, to the day, and the proof is still there.

I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'

The psychology of fashion is interesting because we're selling people something they don't really need. We're just selling them something that makes them feel good. Besides, there is nothing really new in fashion. Everything worth doing has been done before.