“An easy way to find your own style is to exaggerate yourself a bit and then find a balance.” WayEasyBitsStyleBalanceEasy Way Author:Johan Lindeberg
“I would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.” DifferentPlayBitsRolesStyleNew YorkDressesLondonParis Author:Rachel Zoe
“My style is simple, kinda girly, but with a bit of an edge.” BitsSimpleStyleEdgesGirly Author:Erin Heatherton
“No, Wayne (Rooney) doesn’t need it (tips about style). He has his own style. But with hair he looks much better. He looks very good now. Before, he was a little bit ugly, but now, with hair, he’s beautiful.” NeedsLooksLittlesBeautifulBitsStyleHairLittle BitVery GoodUglyWayneRooney Author:Cristiano Ronaldo
“I don't believe in fashion dictatorship, and I find that anybody who follows the dictates of fashion is a bit lost. I'm excited by style, not so much by fashion.” BelieveLostBitsFashionStyleDon't BelieveExcitedDictatorship Author:Marc Jacobs
“In terms of style, too, I think I've been working with a somewhat limited -- although intentionally limited -- set of tools. So I'm attempting to be a bit looser as I start stories off. To digress. To make interesting mistakes.” ThinkingStoriesBitsTermInterestingMistakeStyleToolsAttempting Author:Kelly Link
“Economics is important because it's possible to buy the places that are necessary to live in relative inaccessibility and seclusion, or to move with a bit of style and chicness into the middle of civilization.” ImportantMovingSuccessBitsCareersMiddleStyleBuddhismCivilizationEconomicsRelativeSeclusion Author:Frederick Lenz
“I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated. And there's so much more responsibility because the medium is very much a director's medium. Television is much more of a producer's writer's medium so a lot of the time when you're directing a television show they have a color palette on set or a visual style and dynamic that's already been predetermined and you just kind of have to follow the rules.” KindShowsBitsResponsibilityStyleTelevisionColorDirectorsComplicatedMediumsProducersVisualsTelevision ShowsPalettePredetermined Author:Jason Bateman
“Gwen Stefani has amazing style. I used to really love Courtney Love, and anything she wore I loved. Or Chloe Sevigny, because I really love that sort of classic look, and I like being girly and flowery, and wearing little D&G dresses. I wear hats a lot, too. I think it goes back to when I was a bit grungy and was a skater girl for a bit.” ThinkingLooksLittlesUsedGirlBitsStyleDressesClassicHatsChloeGirlySkaterCourtney Author:Ellie Goulding
“Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.” WritingBitsStylePhony Book:The Death Of The Heart Source: The Death Of The Heart
“I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.” PeopleWantHomeBitsBusinessStyleCommitmentBritishStoresMore MoneyRetailers Author:Philip Green
“I'm sure favorite moments in movies are things that just happen accidentally when the camera is there. You have to do all the homework to get yourself into the period, the costumes, the style, the voice, the hairdo or whatever it is, but once you've done all that work, you have to kind of let it go and just be there. If you're always thinking about it, it just looks a bit over-thought.” IfsThinkingLooksKindDoneMomentsHappensBitsVoiceStylePeriodsCamerasCostumesLet It GoHomeworkAlways ThinkingHairdos Author:Tom Hiddleston
“I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.” LooksGuyBitsDarkStyleStrangeGoldShoesNot SureOver The TopSmileyGold Shoes Author:Aaron Huey
“My style is neither casual nor academic, it's somewhere in between. For me, that's the best way to be succinct and informative but still (I hope) at least a bit entertaining.” WayStillsBitsStyleBest WayAcademicEntertainingCasualInformative Author:Joel McIver
“As I've gotten old I've really listened to a wide spectrum of music, whether it's The Carpenters, Stevie Wonder, Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z or Lauryn Hill. I've kinda' run the gamut, and in listening to so many different styles, you come to take bits and pieces from all of it.” DifferentRunningBitsWonderPiecesStyleListeningWideHillsSpectrumCarpenterJustinDifferent StylesBits And Pieces Author:Brooklyn Sudano
“I don't think that there is one "authentic" element of American style to identity - it's about a sense of freedom, individuality, and embracing personal style. Fashion also has a bit of mystery, which is part of the allure, and yet anyone can partake.” ThinkingBitsMysteryFashionStyleIdentityElementsIndividualityPersonal StyleAllureFashion Style Author:Thakoon Panichgul
“Whenever you see somebody's style you feel like you get to know them a little bit better by how they're dressed.” KnowsFeelsLittlesBitsStyleLike YouLittle Bit Author:Chanel West Coast
“It is very different. I mean, it was immediately different because it's a human being and it's not a vampire and it's not fighting monsters. This isn't the kind of movie that's got the comic book style of fighting to it. It was a bit more gritty.” HumansKindMeanBookDifferentFightingBitsHuman BeingsStyleMonstersVampireComicComic Book Author:Kate Beckinsale
“Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly addictive one. His publisher has described it as 'a thriller for people who don't like thrillers'. One newspaper put it thus: 'It is terribly written, its characters are cardboard cutouts, the dialogue is excruciating in places and, a bit like a computer manual, everything is overstated and repeated - but it is impossible to put the bloody thing down.” PeopleCharacterFoundBitsImpossibleWrittenStyleComputerCriticsNewspapersDialogueNarrativeBloodyPublishersThrillersManualsCloaksVeneerErudition Author:Dan Brown
“I honestly never sat down and said "OK, here's my style," because my whole thing was knowing everyone's style. Everything I've ever written has bits and pieces of everything I've ever heard. Any rapper that tells you different is a liar.” SaidDifferentWholeBitsKnowingPiecesWrittenHeardStyleDown AndHonestlySatLiarsRapperBits And Pieces Author:Bun B
“I've been able to have broad kind of education and all sorts of different music and a lot of kind of films and also different styles and genres. And so, all of these things have influenced me along the way and I take a little bit from everything I do. I've been lucky to work with a lot of great people and learn from them.” PeopleWayKindLittlesDifferentAbleFilmBitsStyleLuckyLittle BitGenreBroadsGreat PeopleDifferent StylesDifferent Music Author:Steven Price
“I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.” TryingArtistSongBitsSoundStyleSickOriginalsMusicalTwistedIdiosyncrasies Author:Al Yankovic
“I just saw Titanic, which is a $200 million film about a real-life disaster at sea, but according to Hollywood Logic, none of the actual passengers was interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and Juliet-style fictional couple to heat up the catastrophe. This seems a tiny bit like giving Anne Frank a wacky best friend, to perk up that attic.” GivingRealEnoughSeemsFilmBitsInterestingMillionsSawsSeaStyleCoupleDirectorsLogicHollywoodTinyDisasterReal LifeHeatFrankCatastrophePassengersJulietPerksAtticsWacky Author:Paul Rudnick
“If Vin Scully calling a game is just as good in 2013 as he was in 1963, that's the way a game should sound. If Jack Buck were around today, I don't think anybody would ask him to change his style. My style has always been a little bit of a combination of old and new, if only because my frame of reference, personally, was different than that of Ernie Harwell or Jack Buck or Harry Caray. I was a younger guy. Just as Joe Buck's frame of reference is somewhat different from mine. But the nuts and bolts of how to call a ballgame well, I think remain the same.” IfsThinkingWayShouldWellsLittlesDifferentTodayGuyAsksGamesBitsSoundStyleMinesCallingLittle BitCombinationNutsBucksBoltsOld And NewFrame Of ReferenceBallgameScullyNuts And Bolts Author:Bob Costas
“You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.” WayKindUsedBitsStyleStuckVeinsFlavorChoreographers Author:Janet Jackson
“I do not want to end up with an American style of politics, with us going out there beating our chest about our faith. Politics and religion - it is not that they do not have a lot in common, but if [religion] ends up being used in the political process, I think that is a bit unhealthy.” IfsThinkingWantEndsPoliticalUsedBitsProcessCommonStyleChestsGoing OutUnhealthyReligion And Politics Author:Tony Blair
“It was a matter of not seeing the woods for the trees. Glorious songs have been in Ireland forever, but a lot of these were so popular they were sung only by drunken men at weddings. They didn't have any regard for the song at all. So, I picked out 14 songs that I had grown up with, songs with great melodies. After 35 years as a songwriter, I appreciate the value of a good melody because I know how hard it is to write one. So I presented them in a new way, with piano, keyboards, strings, and a contemporary rhythm section. I just treated the melody with a bit of dignity and a bit of style.” KnowsMenWayWritingYearsHas BeensMatterHardValuesSongBitsKnow HowForeverSeeingTreeStyleAppreciateDignityRegardWoodsTreatedContemporaryRhythmPianoGloriousStringsMelodyIrelandNew WaysSongwritersSectionsKeyboardsRhythm Section Author:Phil Coulter
“I know a bit about his [Sirk] life, but it's more about his style than biography. He was European and came out of a theater background, and could easily be defined as 'Brechtian.' He was expressionistic in his films, and was an example of those intensely intellectual artists who ended up working for American studios, and was handed the Ladies Home Journal and asked to adapt the stories for the screen. He found ways to use his artistry to make them interesting and nuanced, while critiquing American values in the process.” KnowsWayStoriesUseHomeFilmArtistValuesFoundBitsProcessInterestingStyleExampleIntellectualTheaterStudiosScreensBackgroundsDefinedJournalBiographiesArtistryAmerican Values Author:Todd Haynes
“I think somebody like Wes [Anderson] has a very good sense of style and is original. I think my sense of style got a little bit better after I was exposed to you guys at Valentino. Because I'm just in Hawaii and Malibu; it's just kind of T-shirts and surfing-type stuff.” ThinkingKindLittlesGuyStuffBitsStyleTypeLittle BitOriginalsVery GoodShirtsExposedHawaiiT ShirtSurfingGood SenseMalibuValentino Author:Owen Wilson
“I've intentionally played things very straight with Batman. I didn't want to be too jarring for fans. Zero Year accommodates a bit more style. But, on the whole, I feel Batman - a stoic, methodical, detective - is better served a wee bit reserved. And, I'm anything but comfortable. Zero Year is pressure, man.” MenWantFeelsYearsWholeBitsFansStyleComfortablePressureZeroDetectivesReservedAccommodateStoicMethodical Author:Greg Capullo
“It's a very different show because of the elements that we're putting in. There's so many different styles of comedy, but Mr. Show was unique to Bob and David - two of the most brilliant performers and writers there are. Their show was based on them. Our show is a bit more broad. We have a cast of 7, we have guests. We can be slightly more topical.” TwoDifferentShowsBitsComedyStyleElementsUniqueCastsBrilliantBroadsPerformersGuestsBobDifferent StylesMr Show Author:B. J. Porter
“Preaching styles and people being slain in the spirit and things like that. Now it doesn't happen in all black churches, and it happens sometimes in white churches, right? But on average they're quite a bit different.” PeopleDifferentSometimesHappensSpiritBitsBlackChurchWhiteStyleAveragePreachingAll BlackBlack Church Author:Michael Emerson
“It's one of the things we find in these congregations is that they are much more likely to be sort of up-beat worship styles, more likely that people in these congregations say "Amen," maybe get up and dance some, tend to be a little bit more lively than a typical white service would be, but not as lively as a typical black service would be.” PeopleLittlesWould BeBitsBlackWhiteStyleWorshipLittle BitBeatsGet UpTypicalLivelyAmenCongregation Author:Michael Emerson
“I think it's good to have different styles, though. I think it's good to have a lucha on a show, some Japanese flavor, I think MMA is a good thing, a little bit of the hardcore and the blood and guts is good. That is what makes a show for me.” ThinkingLittlesDifferentShowsBitsBloodStyleLittle BitGood ThingsGutsMmaFlavorHardcoreDifferent Styles Author:CM Punk
“In New York, it's a little bit more formal, a little bit more decorated, and there's a real appreciation for traditional style. Out here, it's casual, fresh, new, and almost humble.” LittlesRealBitsStyleNew YorkLittle BitAppreciationHumbleTraditionalFormalCasual Author:James Pearse Connelly
“According to Hollywood logic, none of the actual Titanic passengers was interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and Juliet-style fictional couple to heat up the catastrophe. This seems a tiny bit like giving Anne Frank a wacky best friend, to perk up that attic.” GivingEnoughSeemsBitsInterestingStyleCoupleDirectorsLogicHollywoodTinyHeatFrankCatastrophePassengersJulietPerksAtticsWacky Author:Paul Rudnick