Expressing Quotes
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I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.
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I started Ballet at a very young age and I was captivated immediately. It became my voice, means to overcome those final barriers to expressing myself. Letting myself fly free. The more experience I have, the more I get to know myself.
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Filmmaking is just a very luxurious and efficient way of expressing yourself.
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Saddam Hussein is being treated the exact opposite of the way his regime treated those he imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing their opinions. And so I reject that.
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Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.
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In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.
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Expressing anger is necessary.
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Expressing myself is what I love most; not having enough time is what I hate about it... I keep to myself, though, when I am on tour, and focus on the tour.
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Documentaries were necessary for my growth as a person. I grew up very sheltered and it was a form of expressing myself.
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I take seriously the concerns that voters are expressing. There's a lot of disappointment, fear, even anger, among people who believe that the economy has failed them, their government has failed them, politics has failed them. They have every right to be concerned.
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I think my love of it all comes partly from the doing of it, the actual expressing of it all and then also from the feeling of being part of a team of like-minds, where you're all making this thing together, whatever that might be, and the subsequent community feel that comes from that, whether it be friendship, care, gossip, scandal, drama.
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The pursuit is everything, the doing of it, the expressing, not the outcome, but the creation of it.
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Quiet! I'm expressing myself!
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I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the guitar, I felt I started expressing myself in that medium without words.
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I've realized that although Valentine's Day can be a cheesy money making stint to most people, it's a day of expressing love across the world. It doesn't have to only be between lovers, but by telling a friend that you care, or even an old person that they are still appreciated.
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There's a guy I used to pay to work with me who'd call me 'kiddo.' I said, 'There's nothing that justifies you expressing that to me, your boss.'
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I am surely a feminist filmmaker, but not because I set out to become one, or am trying to make any kind of statement. Rather, it's inherent in the act of expressing myself, as a woman who is deeply alienated from mainstream cinematic structures of seeing. I express myself and am instantly feminist.
