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James Dean Actor
Expression

"An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet. In the short span of his lifetime, an actor must learn all there is to know, experience all there is to experience, or approach that state as closely as possible. He must be superhuman in his efforts to store away in the core of his subconscious everything that he might be called upon to use in the expression of his art."

Art Order Expression
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Expression

"The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words."

Truth Expression Excellence
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Snoop Dogg Rapper, Actor
Expression

"It's an unexplainable feeling, an expression. It's a touch, it's a feel. Once you feel it, it's like no other thing in the world."

Love Feelings Expression
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"Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots."

Love Expression Roots
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Akira Kurosawa Director, Screenwriter
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"With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this."

Real Fire Expression
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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca."

Journey Expression Travel
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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
Expression

"Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality."

Reality Expression Adherence
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Lewis Mumford Philosopher, Author
Expression

"Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious expression, first in the dream and eventually in all the more orderly products of religion and art and morals."

Art Dream Expression
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Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director
Expression

"To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is."

Art Lying Expression
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Reggie Watts Comedian, Musician
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"I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on my mind: 'What are you? Are you this or that? Are you a white dude or are you a black dude?' In a strange way, music and comedy is kind of the same thing. I'm both.They're just different modes of expression."

Race White Expression
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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people."

Running Self Expression
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher, Writer, Composer
Expression

"It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to this development, the features come insensibly to be formed and assume their shape from the frequent and habitual expression of certain affections of the soul. These affections are marked on the countenance; nothing is more certain than this; and when they turn into habits, they must leave on it durable impressions."

Soul Simple Expression
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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
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"I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression."

Self Quality Expression
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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
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"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."

Mean Art Expression
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