Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. Forster

Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.
Tracy Chapman

Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.
Michael Pollan

George Bush doesn't represent any civilization!
George Galloway

God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.
James Dobson

Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.
Mathieu Kassovitz

However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage.
Mike Fitzpatrick

I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.
Janos Kadar

I am co-counsel and as co-counsel I have the right to represent myself, speak for myself and conduct myself and my trial by myself in my best interests in order of due process.
Lynette Fromme

I am looking forward to seeing my buddy Colin represent in front of Pacino. That's sweet.
Michelle Rodriguez

I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.
Isabella Rossellini

I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.
Kenny Marchant

I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.
Julie Andrews

I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.
Patrick Stewart

I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.
Martin Yan

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
Pierre Charles Baudleaire

I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.
Daniel Akaka

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.
Paula Cole

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.
Pedro Almodovar

I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.
Sean Lennon