"Plain and not honest is too harsh a style."
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"I don't think my film style has changed. I'm doing the same kind of jokes I did when I was younger."
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"I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter."
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"The content dictates the style all the time. That's the way it is. If the content of the film - as in Husbands and Wives - is highly jagged, neurotic, fast-paced, nervous New York film, it just called for that kind of shooting, editing and performance."
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"You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style."
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"The whole trip that happened in the late 60s and 70s was kind of a throwback to a lot of folk styles. I got into it as well 'cause I started with the folk styles."
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"Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz."
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"I LOVE RIHANNA. I LOVE THAT SHE IS HERSELF WITH NO APOLOGIES. HER SENSE OF STYLE AND SELF IS UNIQUE. I LOVE HOW SHE TRANSFORMS HERSELF WITH EACH ALBUM, EACH CAMPAIGN. ALWAYS EVOLVING. A TRUE ICON."
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"I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well."
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"Progress is the life-style of man."
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"Style is such a personal thing; it's your way to be an individual."
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"As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music or some kind of noisier jazz like Sonny Sharrock. In terms of songwriting, I don't know that I could even pin it down."
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"Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box."
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"A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices."
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"Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession."
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"We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years."
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"The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious."
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"Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?"
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"A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn."
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"It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease."
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