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James Joyce Novelist, Poet
Style

"A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience."

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Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Style

"Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it."

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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
Style

"Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive."

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"That was Thorin's style. He was an important dwarf. If he had been allowed, he would probably have gone on like this until he was out of breath, without telling anyone there anything that was not known already. But he was rudely interrupted."

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Ice T Rapper, Actor
Style

"I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing."

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Rainn Wilson Actor
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"The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace."

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Glenn Gould Pianist
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"Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though closely rivaled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry Fields suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band.)"

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Jonathan Adler Designer
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"Think like a photographer. Look at every vignette in your home like it's being shot for a shelter magazine and style accordingly."

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