"I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me."
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"My style go with me. It depend how I feel, what is my state of mind."
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"Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown."
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"A lot of my creative projects are inspired and driven by technology and style. My mission is to recycle as much plastic possible in my lifetime and beyond in the form of high quality products."
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"I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it."
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"Can a president who’s presided over, and possibly encouraged, Chinese-style surveillance of The Land of the Free honestly expect to serve out his full term?"
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"Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly addictive one. His publisher has described it as 'a thriller for people who don't like thrillers'. One newspaper put it thus: 'It is terribly written, its characters are cardboard cutouts, the dialogue is excruciating in places and, a bit like a computer manual, everything is overstated and repeated - but it is impossible to put the bloody thing down."
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"The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical."
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"A Christian is the highest style of man."
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"No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of the prophets. No one has written like that. I've studied ancient literature, Homer, for example, but it's not the same thing."
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"To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar."
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"It's very hard to describe your own style. And I'm young, so I'm still experimenting. But I think it's quite British and very much about individuality."
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"I'm lucky that I've worked with so many different directors with very different styles and with a lot of different actors."
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"I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable."
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"In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style."
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"I like style. For Dior, I did more of a collaboration shoot, not just a single image - so there was more to it. It's a very prestigious brand. I like their style and feel like their style is mine."
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"Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be, how I wanted to sound on the mic and present myself. It was a growing stage. I felt like Infinite was like a demo that just got pressed up."
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"Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique."
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"Just saw a woman with a big tattoo of Jesus on her back. I guess it's an ixnay on the oggy style-day."
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"Ironically, style doesn't come even closely related to fashion. It's got nothing to do [with clothes]."
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