"The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy."
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"With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter."
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"Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self"
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"Donald Trump's not politically correct. Although you are running for president, you should be politically correct. But there is also the expression of an artist."
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"I definitely think about the types of girls that I think would like a certain thing, but at the end of the day it's the most pure expression of myself, let's say, what I'm doing and what I want to create."
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"The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves."
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"The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an expression of how you actually feel. Not only that, but words rarely change things. Actions do."
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"I am a woman of theatre, I'm a librarian of theatre and I love all different kinds of music and all different kinds of expressions."
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"Lane himself lit a cigarette as the train pulled in. Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational pass to meet trains, he tried to empty his face of all expression that might quite simply, perhaps even beautifully, reveal how he felt about the arriving person. Franny was among the first of the girls to get off the train, from a car at the far, northern end of the platform. Lane spotted her immediately, and despite whatever it was he was trying to do with his face, his arm that shot up into the air was the whole truth."
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"The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition. It was very like the standard bloodlessness in the face of a small boy who loves animals to distraction, all animals, and who has just seen his favourite, bunny-loving sister's expression as she opened the box containing his birthday present to her - a freshly caught young cobra, with a red ribbon tied in an awkward bow around its neck."
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"A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might write about it as being the first internet election, in which what happened was actually an expression in the real world of a virtual reality. And you've been writing about that subject for a while."
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"All tastes are expressions of belief."
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"Like a virgin, touched for the very first time."
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"I believe women should own their sexuality and sexual expression."
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"My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight."
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"The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world."
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"Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves."
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"Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner."
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"It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings."
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"Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'."
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