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"Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in."
"I'm much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me. I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it."
"I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life."
"A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period"
"North Korea threatened to launch a missile at South Korea. North Korea backed down after South Korea threatened to launch a sequel to 'Gangnam Style.'"
"Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music has to be aggressive. You can't tiptoe around. It has to be incredibly focused dramatically - no time for second thoughts. It needs to generate a kneejerk reaction."
"In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there should be two"
"Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being."
"My style was always to spread out rather than to move up."
"I actually love modeling clothing and showing women that clothing and style can help your confidence shine."
"You're flying Buzz! No Woody we're falling in style!"
"My style kinda comes from the music I listen to."
"When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it then, I probably would have pointed to something like Bill Wellman's The Ox Bow Incident, the best Western I ever saw and very much in the style of film noir I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross that defines what kind of drama it is."
"Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech."
"My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years."
"Self-esteem doesn't come simply from dressing well, but they are both something we can control. It's a missed opportunity when women say they don't have the money, figure, etc., because style is such a way to help cultivate the way women feel about themselves."
"As a teenager, I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft, so I wrote like H.P. Lovecraft. And in my 20s, I read a lot of Ross Macdonald and Raymond Chandler, so I wrote like those guys. But, little by little, you develop your own style."
"I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness."
"I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants."
"I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails."
