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Style Quotes


"If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way."


"I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives."


"It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow."


"To understand a literary style, consider what it omits."


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


"It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different."



"Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand."


"Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field."


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


"Taste is changing, style is changing, and players' abilities are changing."


"Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed."


"I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style."


"I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient."


"Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in."


"I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style."


"Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature."


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


"No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style."


"Every violinist has a different style, so it's important to be able to recognise their styles. You don't have to like everyone's style but you have to know these styles."


"I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style."


"Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand."


"I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself."


"I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood."


"I can't pretend to be enjoying this. I can't pretend I'm enjoying going out there and playing this style."


"My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today."


"One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines."


"The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling."
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