Style Quotes - Page 8

• Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere in particular, or from many places. So every novelist's literary style is nothing less than an ethical strategy - it's always an attempt to get the reader to care about people who are not the same as he or she is.

  Zadie Smith

  Writing, Voice, People

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• Work is style, and there is style without thought; not in theory, only in fact. When I take a sentence in my hand, raise it to the light, rub my hand across it, disjoin it, put it back together again with a comma added, raising the pitch in the front part; when I rub the grain of it, comb the fur of it, re-assemble the bones of it, I am making something that carries with it the sound of a voice, the firmness of a hand. Maybe little more.

  Donald Hall

  Writing, Light, Hands

  Donald Hall (2004). “Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected”, p.50, University of Michigan Press

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• It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.

  Kurt Loder

  Issues, News, Ifs

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• Finding tricks to create flattering body shape is the key to style.

  Stacy London

  Keys, Body, Shapes

  "What Not to Wear Is Ending After 10 Seasons". Interview with Rennie Dyball, people.com. March 6, 2013.

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• Fit is everything. I don't care what your body type is like: If you're not wearing clothes that fit you, you can't have style.

  Stacy London

  Clothes, Body Types, Care

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• I don't argue style on the basis of tastes. If you feel like you've reached your personal best, don't change.

  Stacy London

  Taste, Arguing, Like You

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• I really do believe that my style is informed by the fact that I had such issues with my appearance at various times of my life.

  Stacy London

  Believe, Issues, Facts

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• I think style is very different from fashion. Fashion was what I went after when I was feeling incredibly insecure and monstrous on the inside.

  Stacy London

  Fashion, Insecure, Thinking

  "The Dr. Drew Show", edition.cnn.com. October 16, 2012.

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• Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.

  Stacy London

  Believe, Thinking, Self

  "Stacy London Tells You Why Clothes Can Change The Way You Feel About Yourself". Interview with Holly Corbett, www.sfgate.com. March 12, 2013.

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• Style can change your look, certainly, but it can also change your life.

  Stacy London

  Looks, Changing Your Life

  Stacy London (2012). “The Truth About Style”, p.12, Penguin

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• Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy.

  Stacy London

  Joy, Joyful, Ifs

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• Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.

  Stacy London

  Want, Lost, Instruments

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• I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.

  Ben Mezrich

  Writing, Trying, Facts

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• I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it.

  Chris Messina

  Actors, World, Empires

  "Chris Messina Talks Ruby Sparks, Celeste and Jesse Forever, Argo, the Mindy Project, Damages, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 23, 2012.

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• We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind of life style. I always was different. I felt like a fish out of water; I really never knew who I was.

  Janet McTeer

  Odd One, Water, Different

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.

  Randall Munroe

  Fall, Practice, Skulls

  "xkcd's Randall Munroe Defeats The Robot Apocalypse" by Alex Knapp, www.forbes.com. August 2, 2012.

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• I'd define my everyday style as put together, but also comfortable. A great pair of jeans and a cute top can be so versatile.

  Shay Mitchell

  Cute, Jeans, Everyday

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• Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

  Anthony Mackie

  Thinking, People, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

  Barry Manilow

  World, Great American, Pops

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I go through different phases and change my mind about my style all the time. In the winter, I wanted to wear jeans and pumps and black and leather all the time. Right now, I want to wear long skirts and belts, with my hair in a ponytail. It changes all the time!

  Heather Morris

  Winter, Hair, Jeans

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• Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Indulge In, Television, Renaissance

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• I would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.

  Rachel Zoe

  New York, Play, Paris

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• The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.

  Tim Cahill

  African American, Cases, Delta

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• I'm embracing the punk. There's so much punk style in everything we do and wear everyday; we just never have the chance to do it all the way.

  Hanneli Mustaparta

  Everyday, Way, Chance

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• The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle class wage-earners, have greater potential to rise up and gain financial independence. In reality, however, free enterprise all too often leads to an almost total lack of government regulation that in turn allows the global elite to run amuck in Gordon Gecko-style financial coups.

  James Morcan

  Running, Mean, Reality

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