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True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.

Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympa...

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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

What about his style?" asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecess...

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I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called c...

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Before 'Gangnam Style' I was not a good attitude artist.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

We may now briefly enumerate the elements of style.  We have, peculiar to the prose writer, the task...

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My style is bad white-boy dancing. I can do swing a little bit, but nothing beyond that. My solo dan...

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Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Do...

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You are one of the few successful persons I know.""Me? Why?""You know precisely what you are doing a...

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Only great minds can afford a simple style.

That's my parenting style - 'Go watch the TV.' I'm one of 11 children, and my mother's parenting sty...

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One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for l...

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Stephen KingOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something bea...

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I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.

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Steven PinkerThe Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedent...

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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

A wise friend once told me, 'Don't wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what _they_ we...

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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement.

The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This ...

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All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For m...

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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

That's why I've just gone on … collecting this particular kind of stuff – what you might call riff-r...

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Lxnig sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in ...

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It is ridiculous to lay down to people where a thing should stand, design everything for them from t...

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An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his th...

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The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the s...

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I am extremely excited to develop and design a brand representative of my life, experiences and styl...

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Having a mom as a hairdresser was really awesome: I was always her test dummy. I've had every style,...

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It's important to show that there's different ways of doing things. Some people like to be glamorous...

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Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.

I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done.

I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who s...

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The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organi...

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It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of ta...

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Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.

The dance is the silent partner of music and participates in a division of labor: music presents a s...

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Ideas are never original," Kelsier said. "Only one thing is.""And what is that?"Style," Kelsier said...

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Nobody else is wearing anything even remotely like it.'Magnus cast a disparaging look around at all ...

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Style is the answer to everything.A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thingTo do a dull thin...

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Growing up in Southern California, it's all car culture. When I was a kid, I knew every single model...

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There’s a big default notion that “spare,” or “precise” prose is somehow better. I keep insisting to...

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Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important...

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Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. Bu...

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Fashion changes, but style endures.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.

People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you...

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[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I ...

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I don't want them to think that we dress like savages,' she replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas mi...

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I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over wi...

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As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you...

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Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many pund...

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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

I want to be able to do anything with words: handle slashing, flaming descriptions like Wells, and u...

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No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock...

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She's beautiful,' he murmured.'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia.'That is her style...

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The first rule of style is to have something to say. The second rule of style is to control yourself...

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George PólyaHow to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.

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Harold BloomThe Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, priso...

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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have n...

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Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida ...

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When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fi...

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Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital ...

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So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and...

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I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. ...

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What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor,...

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I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I ...

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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you ...

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Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. ...

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Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them ...

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Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see...

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I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change

My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good...

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However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my p...

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Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you'll find yourself in late ni...

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I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow m...

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The impression given us by a person or a work (or an interpretation of a work) of marked individuali...

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