Fashion can often be dictated. It’s what people think we should do or wear. Style is totally personal.
My happiness is not dictated on this business. Once I realized that, everything kind of changed.
You can’t let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.
With any body shape it’s important to buy the right size and not be dictated to by size you think you are. Try on a bigger and a smaller size in the shop and see what fits visually. If you do have to go up a size, cut the label out, it’s just a number!
Jane, Henry VIII’s third wife, wasn’t present at her son’s christening, as ritual dictated she had to spend another month in bed. From her chamber she could have looked down on the christening procession below, and must have felt great pride.
I lived my whole life in the kitchen. Not only that, but it’s the passion, it’s the love for cooking and food. It’s dictated my entire life – every aspect of it.
In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
I understand that everything is dictated by market value. But cinema is also an art. It saddens me to see great talent languishing for lack of proper roles.
I don’t understand why one should be one thing or the other. Writing, to me, is writing is writing. It should be a flexible tool. Whatever skills I have, have to work for me; I won’t be dictated by them.
I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.
No. 7 is not an easy position. The way you play is dictated by the pace of the game and you have to try to get quick runs. Even top players like Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes find it hard.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
I don’t hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don’t like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.
Between 20km and 10km to go, you want the whole team at the front. You don’t necessarily want to take control, and the speed will be dictated by how many surges you get from the other teams. You don’t want to go so fast they can’t come, but you want to be just ahead so you’re in control.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
I am like a common man who is dictated by what I like and I sometimes feel that if something good, I should produce it.
So much of comics are dictated by characters talking to one another – or in focused spaces where ‘the camera’ has to stay in pretty close on what’s going on.
I just don’t like people to be dictated to. I think you should dress however you want.
The thing about fashion – it’s like ducks going quack, quack quack. It’s being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it.
Sunday is the only day where I can kind of do my own thing and not have it dictated by the news cycle.
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