#gesture

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it. ↗

— Norman Thomas

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It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#art #beautiful #concentrated #effort #enough

And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

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What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude. ↗

— Marcel Marceau

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As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. ↗

— Malcolm Arnold

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Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#beyond #character #create #expressions #feeling

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them. ↗

— Fannie Hurst

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My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician. ↗

— Toots Thielemans

#cradle #each #gestures #had #i

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you. ↗

— Alfred E. Smith

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