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"I used to play a lot of chess and competitive chess and study chess and as you get to the grandmasters and learn their styles when you start copying their games like the way they express themselves through... The way Kasparov or Bobby Fischer expresses themselves through a game of chess is it's astonishing. You can show a chess master one of their games and they'll say "Yeah, that is done by that player.""
"One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable."
"Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light."
"Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not the conclusion, but is diligent to mark how it is inferred; they read for other purposes than the attainment of practical knowledge; and are no more likely to grow wise by an examination of a treatise of moral prudence, than an architect to inflame his devotion by considering attentively the proportions of a temple."
"You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music."
"You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style."
"All styles are good except the tiresome kind."
"Some people have style without even knowing it!"
"the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world."
"Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions."
"Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward."
"It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now."
"Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint."
"I was so lucky that I didn't have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style, I was creating before I knew there was a Thurber, a Benchley, a Price and a Steinberg. I never saw their work until I was around thirty."
"We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights."
"The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present."
"those who use the word 'lifestyle' are rarely in possession of either."
"I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various"
"I wish I could say something classy and inspirational, but that just wouldn't be our style. ... Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory... lasts forever."
"The Beatles are now history, and it would be unhealthy to try to make my way as a former member. I must admit I occasionally listen to our records, but usually it's not deliberate. I'm more concerned with the present, with working out my own individual style and producing something new and worthwhile."
