- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Style Quotes
Style is what's left after everything else settles.
Several of these track style as something that develops with experience, whether in a performer's technique or a scientist's approach to their own work. For a similar note on self-presentation, see our Look quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was thinking recently about the popularity of TV shows about people shopping for houses. I wonder if part of their appeal is the chance to vicariously imagine our lives playing out in a variety of spaces. We have a sense that the shape and style of our dwellings affects the shapes of the lives that unfold within them.
- Nov 07, 2020
I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.
- London
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- Nov 07, 2020
London style is individual.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it takes time to find your natural style and learn not to be swayed by trends that might not flatter you.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like bootcut jeans in a plain style with a nice line.
- Nov 07, 2020
Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated the designs most emblematic of the Modern Movement.
- Crown
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- Nov 07, 2020
The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.
- Adult Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.'
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think workout clothes should be fun! I definitely don't think I have to wear all black to work out. I would say I am more minimal in my personal style... but my workout style, anything goes.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If anything, I'm constantly trying to figure out how to look chic with the minimal effort required because I'm constantly packing. My off-duty style is always influenced by my mood.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020