Brenda Ueland Quotes

My mother sent me to speech classes, but the other kids still teased me. I was shy. I stooped. Instead of talking, I kept journals. That's where my love of words comes from. I majored in journalism.

You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.

I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

My mother taught me three things, respect, knowledge-search for knowledge, it's an eternal journey. That's like my hair-cut, the line, 360 degrees, find knowledge always. And she taught me to not be quiet, if there's something on my mind speak it. But also to listen.

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

I want to inspire, and be inspired.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

I've constantly tried new things, even as a child, and have always been obsessed with pink. Now I'm just a little more ladylike and fearless. You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

I'm not saying that putting on makeup will change the world or even your life, but it can be a first step in learning things about yourself you may never have discovered otherwise. At worst, you could make a big mess and have a good laugh.

Art helped give me confidence.

I choose to express myself.

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.

I have ideas saved on my computer that I visit from time to time to see if one may shine and motivate me.

I believe that the best way to help people understand the world is to provide them with opportunities to actively explore, experiment, and express themselves.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.

I never like to think that I design for a particular person. I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be, and - to some degree - the woman I'm still a little piece of.