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"For an actor, style comes last. You first have to implement the whole thing, but your style comes from the subconscious, which is the best part an actor brings to his work."
"All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion."
"Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style."
"Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing."
"Le style, pour l'e crivain aussi bien que pour le peintre, est une question non de technique mais de vision. For the writer as well as for the painter, style is not a question of technique, but of vision."
"I'm obsessed with the 1920s, everything from the style to the lifestyle. It was a really cool era."
"You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style."
"Just like styles change, music changes."
"I should say that I'm not conscious of any particular style or any particular literary device when I am writing. I have written 22 books, and they are all very different. I have tried all kinds of genres."
"During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed his horizons."
"I love Drake -- he is very talented and I like his effortless attitude in terms of his style and music."
"I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind. I don't like that style whereby you kind of stitch people up. But the deeper thing is that I just find these people so impressive and admirable."
"I always hope to come up with a style of writing that's appropriate to the material and I felt like this was. And then there's plenty of - I don't know if it's the right word but - lampooning, but it's always at my expense."
"Each of my book arrives at a form and a style that is appropriate to the subject."
"'Godfather' was very classical, the way it was shot, the style, the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean."
"It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose."
"I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop."
"Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it."
"Geoffrey's personal style was very different from mine. He has a lovely speaking voice, a quiet speaking voice. But at Cabinet we always reported on foreign affairs - we always had this quiet voice. It was so quiet sometimes I had to say 'speak up'. And he gave it in a way which wasn't exactly scintillating. And you know, foreign affairs are interesting. They affect everything that happened to our own way of life, and they are exciting. And so we just diverged."
"Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style."
