Quotes about Expression

Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement? Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead right and know it's dead right, there's no excitement like it. It's marvelous. It makes you feel like God on the Seventh Day — for a bit, anyhow.

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

In a very real and sobering way, we must actually become the gospel to the people around us—an expression of the real Jesus through the quality of our lives.

I think that the best part of music is when it comes from a real place and has an ability to kind of connect on a much larger scale. It no longer is a personal thing, it becomes everyone else's thing as well.

Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they were doing.

Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.

I was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background.

I love Instagram and photography.