Style Quotes - Page 29

• Don't think too much of style.

  William Morris

  Thinking, Design, Too Much

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.168, Cambridge University Press

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• With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.

  John Robinson

  Anger, Frustration, Broken

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• I'm very out of style... or I should say I have my own style.

  Alexandra Paul

  Should, My Own, My Own Style

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• I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that relies heavily on suspense with a texture rich in emotion and imagery. I take a great deal of satisfaction in using popular forms-- the adventure, the mystery, the thriller-- so as to hold my reader with the sheer pleasure of a good story. At the same time I try to resolve my books with an ambiguity that compels engagement. In short, I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

  Avi

  Book, Writing, Adventure

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• To translate, one must have a style of his own, for the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one’s own style and creatively adjust this to one’s author.

  Paul Goodman

  Thinking, Nuance, Retreat

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• Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counselling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'

  James Thurber

  Writing, Editing, Editors

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.

  George Bancroft

  World, Seeds, Floats

  George Bancroft (1837). “A history of the United States”, p.348

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• Style has no formula, but it has a secret key.
  It is the extension of your personality.

  Ernst Haas

  Keys, Personality, Secret

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• We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.

  Neil Tennant

  Change, Spring, Rocks

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

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• The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.

  John Oates

  Roots, Done, Never Change

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• J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.

  Michael O'Brien

  Powerful, Emotional, Media

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• I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

  Voltaire

  Swimming, Animal, Perfectly Good

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• One does not consider style, because style is.

  Robert Stone

  Writing, Doe

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• To me, style is consistency.

  Adam Ant

  Consistency

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• My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That’s just not my style... I cook from the soul.

  Aaron Sanchez

  Challenges, Cooking, Soul

  "Aaron Sanchez, Chef Of The Week (RECIPE)". Interview with Cindy Y. Rodriguez, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

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• Elton John himself never seems pretentious but Bernie Taupin's lyrics often do - sometimes pretentious in a clever sort of way, but pretentious nonetheless. There is a conflict between Elton's and Bernie's personal styles, no doubt about it.

  Jon Landau

  Clever, Doubt, Way

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• Since her landmark 'Tapestry,' Carole King has both oversimplified and over elaborated that masterful album's style until her music has become something more overtly but less effectively personal.

  Jon Landau

  Kings, Albums, Landmarks

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• The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Self, Musical

  Jon Landau (1972). “It's too late to stop now: a rock and roll journal”

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• Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour.

  Kenneth Clark

  Age, Kind, Broads

  "The Romantic Rebellion". Book by Kenneth Clark, Ch. 13: Degas, 1973.

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• A well-known magazine asks a man how they should refer to him, as Psychologist X, as Author X? He suggests man of letters, for that is what he is, in the eighteenth-century meaning. But they can't buy that because the word doesn't exist in Time-style; he cannot be that, and presumably the old function of letters cannot exist.

  Paul Goodman

  Men, Magazines, Letters

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.133, New York Review of Books

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• The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.

  Robert Hughes

  Artist, Hallmark, Obsessed

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• Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly addictive one. His publisher has described it as 'a thriller for people who don't like thrillers'. One newspaper put it thus: 'It is terribly written, its characters are cardboard cutouts, the dialogue is excruciating in places and, a bit like a computer manual, everything is overstated and repeated - but it is impossible to put the bloody thing down.

  Dan Brown

  Character, People, Narrative

  "Dan Brown: Veni vidi da Vinci". www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2004.

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• About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our polls are to be trusted, nearly 230 million Americans believe that a book showing neither unity of style nor internal consistency was authored by an omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent deity.

  Sam Harris

  Believe, Book, Beer

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

  Stanley Tucci

  Directors, Actors, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• All of the advice that I give, I'm not an expert by any means, but it's just my opinion. So if somebody likes me or likes y style or my career, I think they should have that feeling.

  Molly Ringwald

  Mean, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: www.pbs.org

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