Quotes About Self-expression

just hope that maybe some people will read about us and see how we weren't manufactured," Watt says, "that we were just three dudes from Pedro and that maybe they could do the same thing themselves.

I just hope that maybe some people will read about us and see how we weren't manufactured," Watt says, "that we were just three dudes from Pedro and that maybe they could do the same thing themselves.

The greatest thing about punk rock for me, as an outsider, was that the concept that you had to be allowed in was no longer valid. You could be operating in a vacuum, you could be as fucked up an individual as you cared to be, and if you did something of worth, all these external conditions were immaterial.

I guess what I felt like was it wasn't my domain. I didn't know enough about politics to really sing about them. And I didn't know enough about the world to really sing about it. But I knew enough about my world to sing about it.

By the way, you don't need the makeup. Puck said.

When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.

He didn't want to be what he wasn't, he didn't know how to be what he was.

Do what you gotta do and stay fly

At least he kept trying to express himself, his real self, as motley and inchoate for now as the outfit he was wearing. And maybe that was part of the purpose of middle school: to give you something to work against, to press upon, as you attempted to fashion a self from the lump of contradictory impulses and emotions and paradigms that your mind and your culture presented.

Funny, Dad, but my generation is visual. We don't tell people what other people are doing. We show what we're doing. We put up photos.

Ms. Chandler, we don't need to point. We all know who we are. We also do not need inflammatory accent being placed on any words. Words are beautiful and ugly, all on their own. Let them stand for themselves.

I'm talking about a little truth-in-packaging here. To be perfectly frank, you don't quite look like yourself. And if you walk around looking like someone other than who you are, you could end up getting the wrong job, the wrong friends, who knows what-all. You could end up with somebody else's life. I shrugged again, and smiled. This is my life, I said. It doesn't seem like the wrong one.

For years, for most of my recollected life, I'd walked carefully over a subterranean well of boredom and hopelessness that lay just beneath the thin outer layer of my imagination. If I'd stood still too long, if I'd given in to repose, I'd have fallen through. So I'd made things, gone to clubs and movies. I'd kept changing my hair.

He wore the same shorts and t-shirts to work for days on end. He refused to wear shoes with laces. He refused to wear watches or even his wedding ring. To calm himself at work he often blared heavy metal music.

Who cares what other people think?" says Alexander. "It's not their team.") In

Here. Where I am anonymous and alone in a white room with no history and no parading. So I can make something unknown in the shape of this room. Where I am King of Corners.

A woman should never learn to sew, and is she can she shouldn't admit to it

When she woke, she picked up a pair of scissors out of the porcelain bowl, leaned over and began to cut her hair, not concerned with shape or length, just cutting it away—the irritation of its presence during the previous days still in her mind—when she had bent forward and her hair had touched blood in a wound. She would have nothing to link her, to lock her, to death.

That there was nothing more assuring than a mask. Under the mask she could rewrite herself into any place, in any form.

I hope that, even when I'm simply just Kwon Ji-yong, I can be someone who still shines even without all these 'flashy' costumes on.

Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.

Like Frank Sinatra, I'm doing it my way.

It's OK if people say I sound like Frank Sinatra. I just don't want them to think I am Frank Sinatra.

I drive the same car that I've driven since I was 16. That's who I am.