"I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist."
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"I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell."
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"Smokey and the Bandit was the first picture [Hal Needham ] directed, and I knew he could handle it. I had just directed Gator, and he saw my style and used that as a pattern."
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"I'm not a fan of chrome wheels. I sort of like brushed, brushed steel, more European style."
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"I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort."
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"Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style."
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"But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style."
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"I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally expressive style - all the "gees" and laconic answers to interviewers. Most of all, I have developed listening as an art form."
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"I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now."
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"The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough."
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"The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will differ, styles will differ. Nobody ever does anything like anybody else; but the end in view is generally the same, and the historian's end is truthful narration. Maxims he will have, if he is wise, never a one; and as for a moral, if he tell his story well, it will need none; if he tell it ill, it will deserve none."
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"Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story."
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"Wearing something that you're not comfortable in is the ultimate sin. It's important for each person to discover their own style, and find something that is not trendy or too revealing or anything that would get in the way of working."
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"When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence."
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"Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style."
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"Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter."
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"Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart.""
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"Rejoice in the prosperity of others. When you feel contemptuous, or even a twinge of jealousy, toward the accomplishments or life-styles of others, you are harboring negativity where love must reside."
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"Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers."
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"The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style."
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