Style Quotes - Page 40

• Good style, to me, is unseen style.

  Sidney Lumet

  Unseen

  Sidney Lumet (2010). “Making Movies”, p.52, Vintage

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• I always got on well with Roberto Mancini and never had a problem with him. Every manager has their own way of working, tactics, and style of play. As a player, you do what the manager says. There are misunderstandings, but generally, everything was fine under Mancini.

  Sergio Aguero

  Player, Way, Tactics

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• I alwyas want to try and create new looks and new things, but equally scary, hopefully. But a new kind of style.

  Neil Marshall

  Scary, Trying, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• How can we prevent this telescoping of cultures and styles from ending up in kitsch eclecticism, a cool hellenism excluding all critical judgment?

  Nicolas Bourriaud

  Culture, Kitsch, Judgment

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• Los Angeles County government is a "Soviet-style system," with too many people only sort of in charge and no person sufficiently at the helm to take responsibility.

  Zev Yaroslavsky

  Responsibility, Government, People

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• I think the best coaches have their own style. That takes time to mold that.

  Vince Kehres

  Thinking, Mold, Best Coaches

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• One of the greatest learning experiences I had was hanging out with Maureen Tucker from the Velvet Underground. There's a woman who has no training and has a very simplistic and very tribal drumming style. I don't even know that she can even do a drum roll, but she's probably my favorite rock drummer because she plays every note perfect.

  Glenn Kotche

  Rocks, Play, Perfect

  Interview with Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. June 5, 2006.

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• I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Artist, Sick

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-style program to return to the moon? Or have we blazed that trail? Shouldn't we help other nations achieve this goal with their own resources but with our help?

  Buzz Aldrin

  Helping Others, Moon, Goal

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• 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.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Writing, Different

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• I have so many songs, it's ridiculous. I love so many different types of music and tend to write all over the map, style-wise. R&B, rock 'n' roll, screamers, pop, good-time songs.

  Taryn Manning

  Wise, Song, Writing

  "Flowing with Taryn Manning". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2014.

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• You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.

  Walker Evans

  Art, Use, Documents

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• I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Views, Voice

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• Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.

  Pablo Picasso

  Voice, Attention, Pay

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• 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.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Quiet Voice, Interesting, Lovely

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• Lack of skill dictates economy of style.

  Joey Ramone

  Skills, Economy

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• We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good.

  Ennio Morricone

  Musical, World, Disease

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• During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed his horizons.

  Geezer Butler

  Black, Horizon, Firsts

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• A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.

  Norman Mailer

  Character, Men, Undisciplined

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, People, Excess

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• Style isn't something added on; it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life.

  Martin Amis

  Perception, Way

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• The best style is the least noticeable.

  Whit Burnett

  Hallie Southgate Burnett, Whit Burnett (1979). “Fiction Writer's Handbook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Made

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• My mother, grandmother and I all have different styles, but we share the same taste.

  Margherita Missoni

  Mother, Different, Taste

  "Missoni: a family always in fashion". Interview with Kamin Mohammadi, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2010.

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• There's nothing cooler than a good fitting, worn-in pair of Wrangler jeans, so it's great that with the new Retro line, my fans can go out and rock the same styles that I love.

  Jason Aldean

  Rocks, Jeans, Fans

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