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Even the smallest gesture can make a huge difference.
I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.
The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.
If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, I'd do it.
Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?
In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
For me, the 'Three Stoppages' was a first gesture liberating me from the past.
I want to be clear that I only share passages from the Bible as a gesture of love.
Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
I'm just not a huge romantic type and getting married is a hugely romantic gesture.
'Defying Gravity' is a big, theatrical, grand gesture. In film, how do you match that?
The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.
Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects.
These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.
As far as my involvement in the Bajaj family affairs is concerned, it is a friendly gesture.
What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
There is no question I owe Mia a great deal for adopting me. For that gesture, I still love her.
For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness.
Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
Wearing a suit can seem like a somewhat archaic gesture, a concession to formality in a determinedly casual age.
The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.
I talk fast, I'm always running from one thing to another, and I tend to gesture a lot with my hands when I talk.
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
Unfortunately, you cannot let your neck be kind of cut as a gesture for your neighbor, even if it's a good neighbor.
Let me tell you, I am not a girl who loves to get flowers. I love the sweet gesture, but those things are high-maintenance!
I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.
Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.
Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.
I am not married, no. I wasn't really into the notion when I was younger, but now I think a proposal is the ultimate romantic gesture.
When you do something for society, however big or small the gesture may be, you must tell people around you to follow it as an example.
When I was at the top, my mother was helping other girls. I thought it was a beautiful gesture and that I should continue it in her name.
When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.
I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.
Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
Building one garden in L.A. - it might be a nice gesture - but it won't make a difference. We have to start to change the culture of the community.
Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions.
Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
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.
Each implementation of human effort, however minute the overall result may be, is summed up in the gesture of the sower - sometimes an awe-inspiring gesture.
A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.