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"What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can never be imposed from without; born of the profoundest tendencies within a society, its direction is to a certain extent unpredictable, in much the same way as the eventual configuration of a tree's branches."
"I've recorded songs that are prayers in different styles, not just in the traditional gospel style that can help and comfort them. It's the words that matter most."
"How and when to try new things and to what degree are critical... Too soon and too radical a change and you may not master anything or develop a style."
"Tilting his head back he slowly released an enormous quantity of smoke from his mouth and drew it up through his nostrils. He continued to smoke in this "French-inhale" style. Very probably, it was not part of the sofa vaudeville of a showoff but, rather, the private, exposed achievement of a young man who, at one time or another, might have tried shaving himself left-handed."
"I'm not a fashionista - I adore creative and original people with their own style."
"I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence."
"I define a diva as a woman who possesses courage, beauty, style, and confidence. Based on that definitions, I've probably got a bit more work to do."
"The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world."
"I have skipped from style to style from film to film, and I love doing that because it's given me the ability to free myself from the past. Perhaps one of the worst feelings that I can have is the feeling that I'm locked in, like a prisoner of myself, which is something we all feel at some point in our lives. So part of making those stylistic jumps is just to free myself up-to get away from the old or the old Oliver Stone."
"You always try to find the right style for the movie. That's the key."
"Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original."
"I should have said Welsh has always attracted me. By its style and sound more than any other, ever though I first only saw it on coal trucks, I always wanted to know what it was about."
"What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand."
"As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect."
"Used to ride with him to Brooklyn, Lewis and Halsey, co chocolate thai, vernon style and burn it down"
"There is many different paths of a career. I bounce around and do a lot of different things. It suited me that hopefully I am prepared to do different kinds of styles, genres, or whatever you want to call it."
"Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure."
"Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same."
"I cannot keep track of all the vagaries of fashion, Every day, so it seems, brings in a different style."
"I used to be very quick, I would be able to leave the room and be back before you noticed. When you can't do that anymore you need to change the style of how you do things. But I'm very interested in life and you don't want to lose that."
