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• I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.

  Faith Evans

  Real, Sadness, Quiet

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• The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act.

  Martha Graham

  Thinking, Body, Gestures

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• I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Growing Up, People, Trying

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• Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out.

  Norman Rockwell

  Artist, Actors, Mouths

  "A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography". Book by Donald Walton (p. 198), 1978.

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• Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.

  William Henry Ashley

  Government, Friendly, Degrees

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• So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

  Aaron Copland

  Music, Long, Giving

  Aaron Copland, Richard Kostelanetz (2004). “Aaron Copland: A Reader : Selected Writings 1923-1972”, p.32, Psychology Press

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• The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult.

  Beth Gibbons

  Inspiration, Add, Firsts

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• Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

  Gloria Estefan

  Latin, Parent, Affection

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• I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.

  Christopher Walken

  Cat, Animal, Talking

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• Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.

  Cherrie Moraga

  Heart, Doe, Oppression

  Cherríe Moraga (1983). “Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios”, South End Pr

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• There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

  Walt Whitman

  Education, Humble, Illiterate Person

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Some people are more expressive in worship. Some people more subtle and it's all good

  Tim Hawkins

  People, Worship, Subtle

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• Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.

  Grant Achatz

  Art

  Interview with Michael Y. Park, www.epicurious.com. September 27, 2010.

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• I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive.

  Lillian Gish

  Art, Way, Silent

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I think 'selfies' are fun and expressive, as long as you don't get carried away with it.

  Trey Songz

  Fun, Thinking, Long

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• She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.

  Haruki Murakami

  Expression, Scary, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 15, 2015

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• Movement has the capacity to take us to the home
  of the soul, the world within for which we have
  no name. Movement reaches our deepest nature,
  and dance creatively expresses it. Through dance,
  we gain new insights into the mystery of our lives.
  When brought forth from the inside and forged by
  the desire to create personal change, dance has the
  profound power to heal the body, psyche and soul.

  Anna Halprin

  Life, Change, Dance

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• I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

  Barnett Newman

  Art, Expression, Leaving

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• I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more exact than an abstract scientific terminology, which is wont to toy with the notion that its theoretic formulations may one fine day be resolved into algebraic equations.

  Carl Jung

  Thinking, Giving, May

  Carl Gustav Jung (1959). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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• What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Soul And Body, Inward

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.170, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Sweet baby Jesus, Blue Eyes was... He was gorgeous in all the ways that made girls do stupid things. He was tall, a good head or two taller than me and broad at the shoulders, but tapered at the waist. An athlete's body - like a swimmer's. Wavy black hair toppled over his forehead, brushing matching eyebrows. Broad cheekbones and wide, expressive lips completed the package created for girls to drool over. And with those sapphire-colored eyes, holy moley...

  J. Lynn

  Girl, Sweet, Baby

  J. Lynn (2013). “Wait for You (Wait For You, Book 1)”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• In TheColorful Apocalypse, Greg Bottoms explores the frontier between inspiration and psychosis with the expressive power, the passionate fervor, and the faithfully unflinching honesty for which his work is deservedly known. This book is incisive, startling, and often genuinely moving.

  Madison Smartt Bell

  Honesty, Moving, Book

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• When we are playing [games], we are stretching our emotional expressive ranges, loosening up our biochemical flow of information, getting unstuck, and healing our feelings.

  Candace Pert

  Healing, Emotional, Playing Games

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• The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.

  Henri Matisse

  Play, Space, Empty

  Henri Matisse, Susan Lambert, Victoria and Albert Museum (1981). “Matisse lithographs”

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• Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock.

  Andy Greenwald

  Emo, Rocks, Misunderstood

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