To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.
I don't really have that many judgements on things, or crazy statements that I feel like I have to put across.
People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions.
Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.
The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular...
I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.
I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
This is a polarizing statement, as I have come to discover, but I am a Pats, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins fan from birth until death.
I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.
Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.
A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.
I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.
My fashion statement depends on my mood. I am more of a tomboy when dressing up, and I have never worn pink in my entire life.
People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?
The statement 'the Shariah says...' is thus automatically misleading, as there is almost always more than one answer to any legal question.
An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing.
