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“You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard.”

Men Giving Play Talking Havens Expression Give Me Fingers Plastic Keyboards

Author:Midge Ure

“I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that I lost the sense that my artistic expression was worthy.”

Art Enough Play Lost Expression Worthy Artistic Insecurity Good Enough Childlike Disconnected Artistic Expression

Author:Elisabeth Shue

“What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?”

Thinking Writing Years Play Happens Waiting Pieces Expression And Love Thirty Sincere Composer Thirty Years

Author:Charles Mingus

“Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.”

Art Ideas Play Expression Asking Wrestler Charades

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be it's not art, it's expression.”

Should Art Play Kids Expression Punk Nostalgic

Author:Tom DeLonge

“Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.”

Art Self Play Together Grows Land Expression Instruments Bread Factories Integration Farming Harmonious Self Expression

Book:The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold

Source: The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold

“Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.”

Play Language Figures Expression Perception Relation Preserves Replay

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Everyone has doors in the living room of their lives that they assume are locked. Doors that lead to artistic expression. People say "I have no talent -- I can't dance or sing or paint or write poetry or play an instrument." More often than not the doors are not locked, just closed. One may turn the handle, open the door and pass through into a larger life space.”

People Writing May Art I Can Play Turns Space Rooms Doors Talent Expression Instruments Assuming Paint Handle Artistic Locked Living Room Artistic Expression Locked Doors

Author:Robert Fulghum

“The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.”

Mind Play Results Serious Expression Repose Exertion Grotesque Frivolous

Book:The Stones of Venice

Source: The Stones of Venice

“The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.”

World Way Play Life Is Speak Expression One Way Consistently Commonplace

Author:Giacomo Leopardi

“Eric's performance is an awesome and entirely honest expression of the pain and beauty of his music. To watch him play is like riding on the tail of a dragon, but he is so gentle with his rider, you forget how high up you are or how intense the ride is. He is perhaps the most generous performer I have ever watched, every bit of himself is given to the audience. He's like a Marina Abramovic with a piano, completely and deeply committed, regardless of that pain.”

Play Pain Given Bits Forget Watches Audience Honest Expression Performances Committed Intense Gentle Piano Generous Dragons Performers Riding Tails Riders Eric

Author:Tea Leoni

“One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new formsof expression, new inventions, new discoveries, and new solutions....It's exactly what children's play seems to be about and explains why so many people have come to think that children's play is so important a part of childhood--and beyond.”

People Thinking Way May Children Important Play Seems Process Known Childhood Expression Findings Solutions Discovery Invention One Way Combination Yield New Discoveries New Inventions

Author:Fred Rogers

“Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.”

“I was doing great plays. It wasn't changing the world. I was getting good agents and doing film and TV and I wasn't happier. I was like "Wow, there is an unease inside of me." And that led me back on my kind of more spiritual path to the Baha'i faith in a new and fresher way and I came to also understand at that point that there was no difference between being devout and being an artist. There is no difference between creativity and spirituality and philosophy and that is what Soul Pancake, the book, and SoulPancake.com are about is: it's all about human expression and it's about seeking to transcend.”

“The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it is not here given, and is never given, any other role to play, and apart from this consideration it would surely never have occurred to anybody to try to represent as some single kind of things the things which the ordinary man says that he 'perceives.”

Men Trying Kind Play Given Roles Trouble Expression Materials Perception Ordinary Data Perceive Consideration Material Things Ordinary Man Foils

Author:J. L. Austin

“I'd be very suspicious of anybody that seems to have to move to the next level of expression. I distrust that: now I'm writing a book, now I'm being an actor. It should be a natural thing. I think it's a natural thing for you to act. But I think that people that feel that, because they've written one maybe quite beautiful love song that equips them to play Romeo, is probably misguided.”

“I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.”

Ifs Believe May Different Play Feelings Sound Creativity Expression Type Picks Instruments Block Writer's Block

Author:Saul Williams

“One particular debate that I have seen play out again and again is whether trans people who have more traditional gender expressions or who "pass" more should be the ones who are represented. A recent advocacy guide focused on advocating around trans health care access produced by the largest trans advocacy organization in the US instructs readers that advocacy will be more successful if the message is delivered by people who pass as non-trans men and women.”

“Computer and video games represent one of the most important new media developments of this generation. Unlike many other forms of entertainment they offer players the opportunity to explore, be creative, learn through interaction and express themselves to others. It is vitally important that we protect and nurture this new art form so that it can reach its full potential. Like most new forms of artistic expression that have come before (music, novels, movies), the primary critics of video games are the people that do not play them.”

“Everything evolves naturally in life. It's not limited to beauty or music. The more experience you get, the more you find out about yourself. Everything becomes more and more an expression of the real you. I can play different characters. Sometimes I feel tomboy or glam or playful. When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.”

Feels Looks I Can Different Real Sometimes Play Character Emotion Expression Evolve About Yourself Real You Different Characters Glam

Author:Rita Ora

“I don't look at people's expressions, because I still get nervous when I play, especially when I first put the harp up there. I just try to tune - it takes me a half-hour to tune, and I get nervous if I look at anybody when I do it.”

People Ifs Trying Firsts Looks Stills Play Hours Half Expression Nervous Tunes Take Me Half Hours Harps

Author:Joanna Newsom

“Skating is an amazing form of self expression. It's like my soul at play.”

Soul Self Play Form Expression My Soul Self Expression Skating

Author:Josee Chouinard

“Incapable of conjuring up any facial expression that she did not learn from watching television, Jessica Alba plays a brilliant scientist who inadvertently acquires the ability to make herself invisible. This is not a gift Alba seems particularly comfortable with, as the last thing she needs is to be heard but not seen.”

Needs Play Seems Lasts Ability Heard Television Expression Comfortable Scientist Brilliant Invisible Acquire Incapable Facial Jessica Conjuring Watching Television Facial Expression

Author:Joe Queenan

“Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.”

World Play Clear Expression Laughter Absence Playfulness God's Presence

Book:Dangerous Wonder: The Adventure of Childlike Faith

Source: Dangerous Wonder: The Adventure of Childlike Faith

“You know that old expression "It's not whether you win or lose; it's how you play the game". That line was definitely not coined by a chef. Because for a chef, it's only about whether or not you pull through. If you fail, nobody cares how hard you tried.”

Ifs Knows Hard Play Care Games Winning Loses Lines Failing Expression Chef Win Or Lose Nobody Cares

Author:Marcus Samuelsson

“I've done choir since I was tiny, and I've always tried to get into plays. They all just meshed together. Now with my career, especially with music, people are like, "Which one do you pick?" I don't pick either. They're just different expressions of who I am.”

People Different Done Play Together Careers Expression Picks Tiny Who I Am Choir Different Expressions

Author:Tinsel Korey

“I think when I started acting it was the first time I got the freedom of expression. I was able to express certain emotions and feelings that I could put into other characters, so it was a good way for me to run away from ho I personally was. I could be a ninja, I could be a pirate or I could be in a play y'know.”

Thinking Knows Way Firsts Play Character Feelings Running Able Certain Acting Emotion Expression First Time Running Away Pirate Good Way Freedom Of Expression Ninja

Author:Adam Beach

“By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that interlacing. And those have personal and psychological expressions in a character. Aside from other issues of writing, psychological characterization is what narrative can do best.”

Writing Play Character Use Can Do Issues Expression Consequence Definitions Delight Psychological Narrative Characterization Chronology

Author:Chang-Rae Lee

“I can play a lot of things, but I haven't mastered any one. I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world.”

World I Can Real Play Use Form Havens Expression Real World

Author:Adrian Grenier

“Children offer the finest expressions of openness and flexibility. They play and laugh freely, and find wonder in the smallest things.”

Children Play Wonder Laughing Expression Offers Openness Smallest Finest Flexibility

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They're all "physically inhabited," for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.”

Play Character Seems Particular Expression Details Instance Gestures Holmes Cerebral Quirks

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.”

Humans Play Childhood Expression Individuality Preparation Interaction

Author:Frank Gehry

“My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That's how I see my voice.”

Ifs Want Play Voice Expression Singing Instruments Mediums

Author:Nina Simone

“Iran is the latest expression of a deep, ancient, powerful culture that's different than ours. And we don't know how it's going to play itself out.”

Knows Different Play Culture Powerful Know How Expression Ancient Iran

Author:Barack Obama

“There is a French expression that says: to be exposed to an accident, to cross a street without looking at the cars means exposing oneself to be run over. This is more than a play with words, it's fundamental.”

Mean Play Running Streets Car Expression Crosses Fundamentals Oneself Accidents Exposed Exposing

Author:Paul Virilio

“It meant a kind of real liberation of expression. It embraced amateurism in a way that I still am inspired by. It was not about trying to get, you know, stadium gigs or even commercial radio play or even record deals for that matter. It was about saying something 'cause you meant it, and expressing something that you felt. And that was primary for that - whatever the scene, whatever punk rock means, it was very, very important to me, very formative.”

Knows Way Trying Kind Mean Stills Important Real Matter Play Felt Causes Deals Records Rocks Expression Scene Inspired Radio Primaries Liberation Punk Gigs Stadiums Punk Rock Radio Plays

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“S&M is just a set of practices that get classified as a single category, when more accurately they are a part of much larger set of behaviors: expressions of love, and self, and play, and even art. There is no hard line between "vanilla" sex and S&M sex, or any other kind of relation between people.”

People Kind Art Self Hard Play Sex Lines Practice Expression Behavior Relation Categories Vanilla Expressions Of Love

Author:Melissa Febos

“Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.”

Play Winning Fun Loses Expression Tables Vices Gambling Gamble Gaming Humanness Humanness Is

Book:The Passion

Source: The Passion

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