"His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language."
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"Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while."
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"I want to tap into different styles. Something definitely mature, sultry, sensual, easy listening that everyone can enjoy. Every one of every race and everyone that likes different styles."
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"Lifestyle. Not a word at all, really - rather a wordette. A genuine case of more is less. ... the word life and the word style are, except in rare cases (and chances are that you're not of them), mutually exclusive."
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"Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set."
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"I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way."
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"Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust."
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"You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry."
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"We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm."
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"Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature."
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"The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine; as for the Roman, it is ourselves; and we could walk blindfolded through every chink and cranny of the Greek mind; all these styles seem modern when we come close to them; but the gothic gets away."
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"Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and disappear in this ordeal. The pen which wrote it is soon destroyed, but the poem survives."
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"When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural."
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"It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind."
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"For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian."
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"One man's style must not be the rule of another's."
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"The more composed scenes are like elevator music compared to some of the more dynamic styles of music. One is not better than the other. They both deserve their spots in the world."
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"What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style."
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"I'm a playmaker. I'm always attacking the rim and have somewhat of a reckless style. I try to be everywhere at once."
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"I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen."
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