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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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My personal style changes wherever I am. When I'm in Ibiza, I'm a bit girlier because there's an opportunity to be more romantic and dress up for the beach scene. Whereas in New York, I tend to go for suiting and tailoring that almost feels like weaponry for the city - but I think I'm quite playful no matter what.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've found that motherhood helps you figure out what absolutely needs to be done and what doesn't. You just learn to do everything quicker and quicker - your style and your makeup gets more refined and generally easier.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Style icons feel like they have to be so thin, and when I see somebody with a fuller figure like Scarlet Johansson, who is sexy and happy, I find it such a relief.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd dress like RuPaul if I was prime minister. I'd have a lace front, waist cincher. I'd have padding on my hips. I'd be ruling the country in style.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My style has allowed me to tear down barriers in day-to-day life with people who would otherwise have a negative stereotype of someone who wears a turban, but also to speak to people on Bay Street, professionals who don't really think of New Democrats as an option.
- Fierce
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure I can work the Premier League, maybe my style of play is better suited to the Premier League than in the Championship.
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020