That’s why ‘Gangnam Style’ works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it’s just awkward. But if someone like me uses it, it’s funny.
Personally, I don’t think of myself as a style icon. It’s basically because the public loves me so much.
My ultimate style pin up is a tough question because my own style is influenced by so many sources. From Bianca Jagger to Kate Moss to Julie Christie. I love how they are always themselves and it never looks too ‘done.’
Coming into the business, you’d pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were really able to have a style strong enough to go directly to the publishers.
I love sneakers on a girl. I don’t know why, but I guess it’s because I’m still a young. I really like just like a girl who has style – a girl who does her own thing, is unique in what she’s wearing and works what she’s got.
The dot stands for ‘detail’ – always be paying attention to detail. I feel that people take you as serious as you take yourself. I spent a lot of time working on my craft, developing my style, and after I came out of my little incubation, I promised that I would pay attention to detail.
I sat with myself one day and asked, ‘Who is in those prestigious literary circles? Do they represent me? Do they appreciate the topics I write about and the style in which I write? Do those gatekeepers let a demographic like mine through the door?’ And the answer was no.
I feel like I created my own sound and style.
I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
Show off your own style and uniqueness to stand out. That’s the advice I’d give to people getting started online now.
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.
I think of ‘Mommy’ as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actually work with what you see onscreen and what you feel in that very moment. I hope we did not disrespect the characters by being too flamboyant when it’s not necessary.
Rock and roll is not an instrument. Rock and roll isn’t even a style of music. Rock and roll is a spirit that’s been going since the blues, jazz, bebop, soul, R&B, heavy metal, punk rock and, yes, hip-hop.
Sometimes, I write ’60s or ’80s style pop songs.
I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
I mean, I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go.
Part of the Hong Kong style is the fact that a lot of the performers can perform the moves, and we don’t over-rehearse this stuff.
Yes, I’ve been down the pike and back. And through the years, I’ve heard different songs with scatting in it, and it was – always cracked me up as kind of a funny style of music, you know? When I did it, it kind of cracked me up as a comedy kind of routine.
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
The thing is, we’ve changed our style but we’ve never changed the actual roots of what we’ve done.
When ’36 Chowringhee Lane’ was released in 1981, I was a student of the Film and Television Institute of Tamil Nadu. Everyone who had seen the film was very impressed with its flawless direction and acting. But we, cinematography students, were stunned by the visual style, which was truly international.
I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.
To me, snowboarding is really an art form, and I think every athlete, every snowboarder has her own style, and that makes them stand out.
Todd and I have a very complementary working style .
I guess I can’t be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.
I have a sloppy style of playing guitar. A percussive style. Unique in fact.
An authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it.
Style really comes down to what makes you feel good.
I’ve been told I have an aggressive driving style.
The unity in any painter’s work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way… style.
When I work alone, and I’m in my studio, and I’m playing a lot of the stuff myself, I think the style of it becomes something a little different.
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.
I would describe my style as comfortable and casual.
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
Everybody has their own style. I’m very particular in what I like, and I try to keep it that way. I always have big appreciation for other people’s styles, and I love seeing how other people dress themselves through their own influences.
No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style.
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.
I was a little bit wary of playing Nicholas. In the script, which I think is true of the novel and the film, he’s the only character not singing and dancing in a musical style. Playing someone who is the personification of good is a little difficult.
I’m Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.
Every time I bought someone’s album, it was about the connection. I was loving everything, from their raps to their style. I wanted to meet them.
Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.
American presidential leadership never goes out of style.
Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.
If I make two films in a year, they’ll be different. This is my style – I can’t have just one way.
He who brings a style to a club that can’t carry it out, he is not a good manager, because he is attacking the club that hires him.
My style is not trendy by any means; my inner artists loves to shine through in my wardrobe.
My style is bad white-boy dancing. I can do swing a little bit, but nothing beyond that. My solo dancing is sad. I use my arms, badly.
Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing – these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.
Everybody’s got a puncher’s chance in this game. I mean every single person on Earth. But my whole focus, my whole style, my whole dynamic is built around taking that power away from you. So where is the logic in why you’re different from anybody else? There is no logic in it.
If I’m gonna go down I’m gonna do it with style. You won’t hear me surrender, you won’t hear me confess cause you’ve left me with nothing but I have worked with less.
At the beginning of writing fiction, too much of the newspaper style was getting into the prose, so I thought, ‘Gee, I should try writing longhand. Maybe I can tap something that goes back to the point before I could type.’
My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won’t have to tell me what’s going on in our city. I’ll hear it, I’ll see it, I’ll touch it myself.
Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it’s religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
Real style is not having a program – it’s how one behaves in a crisis.
All of my fights, I try to end the fight. That’s my style.
I represent and defend my style.
Long before the idea of a writer’s conference was a glimmer in anyone’s eye, writers learned by reading the work of their predecessors. They studied meter with Ovid, plot construction with Homer, comedy with Aristophanes; they honed their prose style by absorbing the lucid sentences of Montaigne and Samuel Johnson.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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.
My style is always different. Sometimes it’s preppy, sometimes it’s chic.
I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.
My mother has always been my style icon.
Janelle Monae, she has her own style, and it’s specifically hers.
I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.
