“I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of old mysteries. Maybe it's helped me attain a certain fluidity with my style.” CertainStuffMysteryCenturyStyleCollegeAwful19th CenturyDickensFluidity Author:Josh Lieb
“I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up.” MindTwoSelfSometimesBodyCareThreePracticeWeekStyleCollegeYogaRoutineSelf CareThree TimesCraveStaples Author:Taylor Schilling
“Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all. And writers - not just literary writers, but popular writers as well - breathe air into English and keep it lively by making it their own, not by adhering to some style manual that gets handed out to college Freshmen in a composition class.” WellsMadeKidsRoomsClassAirStreetsStyleCollegeCornersBreathePhrasesCompositionLivelyManualsFreshmanDialectSlangStreet CornersCollege Freshmen Author:Donna Tartt
“I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the big college bands. I was also influenced by groundbreaking efforts of Too Short.” ThinkingBigsEffortStyleCollegeBandUniversityToo ShortFunkGroundbreaking Author:E-40
“I enrolled at a local college, but this time paid attention to myself - took only courses that really interested me, even if they weren't in sequence; kept out of classes with people I knew from high school, because I tended to act like the class clown around them; selected teachers by their teaching style - until I could build up my study habits. I ended up graduating with a 3.97 GPA and got into Harvard for my doctorate.” PeopleIfsSchoolCoursesAttentionClassStudyTeacherTeachingStyleCollegeHabitHigh SchoolPaidLocalsGraduatesClownSequenceHarvardSelectedDoctoratesGpa Author:L. Todd Rose
“After college, I shot a pilot for a show on Lifetime, which was basically House of Style for a TV lover. I think I got paid $1,500, and I was like, "Mom, I'm moving out! I made it!" I did two seasons of that, but I felt like a talking head and wanted to do more.” ThinkingMadeTwoShowsWantedMovingHouseFeltTalkingStyleCollegeTvsMomLoversShotsSeasonsPaidLifetimeMade ItPilotsMoving OutTalking Heads Author:Tracee Ellis Ross
“That competition grew through high school and you step outside more and it grew through college. Then you had regional style speak volumes through college. As you get older, and begin to travel and see more, that was the progression of style for me.” SchoolSpeakStepsStyleCollegeGrewHigh SchoolCompetitionVolumeProgression Author:Pusha T