Mabel Elsworth Todd Quotes
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.
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Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
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We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
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I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.
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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
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Sex is emotion in motion.
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You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.
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'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.
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From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused.
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You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.
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I was disappointed in our fourth quarter beginning. We put ourselves in a good position, and didn't score for the first three minutes of the fourth quarter. We gave it away in the fourth, and went from one to eleven.
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The fastest way to become the master of your thoughts and emotions is through challenging situations. If your life is going along fairly smoothly, there are not the same opportunities that enable you to strengthen your power and become the master of your thoughts and emotions. You see, even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.
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Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it's very touchy when you start adding things, because even the smallest thing can have a huge impact. Somebody has to make the decision that there's a better song in there if there's less.
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That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.
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Emotion constantly finds expression in bodily position.
