Best style & character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.”

Thinking Way Writing Believe Character Able I Believe My Own Attitude Style Events Originals Work Out Affected Good Writers

Author:Margaret Mahy

“Leadership is not about personality, possessions, or charisma, but all about who you are as a person. I used to believe that leadership was about style but now I know that leadership is about substance, namely character.”

Knows Believe Persons Character Used Style Personality Who You Are Possession Substance Charisma

Book:The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership

Source: The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership

“Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mind’s concentrated and stumbling proposals might be expressed … Reading his poems, we experience the gnash of arriving through feeling at thought and word.”

Mind Character Feelings Might Reading Style Proposal Signatures Arriving Stumbling Forged American Poetry Compression Thoughts And Words

Author:Forrest Gander

“The acting style that has emerged from HD, because of the contrast and how sharp the picture is, it's more neutrally played. The main character is very minamalistic. That's what works in this digital age.”

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Author:Dolph Lundgren

“Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.”

“When I make the music that I make, when it comes to reggae music, I engulf the whole spirit of it all. It's just like when I do rap music or whatever style of music I do, I have to engulf the character I do and bring that to life.”

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Author:Snoop Dogg

“One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while it is perhaps the most difficult attainment of mere style, is also no doubtful indication of personal character. There must be something essentially noble in an elective ruler who can descend to the level of confidential ease without forfeiting respect, something very manly in one who can break through the etiquette of his conventional rank and trust himself to the reason and intelligence of those who have elected him.”

Source: Abraham Lincoln

“While it is challenging working with a kid, because they're so of the moment all the time. My acting style is to try to take something from my life that the character can relate to and that I can relate the character to.”

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Author:Kyra Sedgwick

“If you want to create a different character, you can do so just by altering your style of dress and cosmetics.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Style is a display of character. It's also a great way to express yourself and the ladies like it.”

Way Character Style Display Express Yourself

Author:Trey Songz

“A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.”

People Writing Kind Philosophy Character Use Body Song Stars Influence Rocks Style Shapes Lifestyle All Kinds Devices Rock Star Influencing People

Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview

Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview

“The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.”

Character Style Letters Playfulness True Character

Book:Some of the

Source: Some of the

“The (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) stories were great, for one. The thing that makes him a remarkable character is how he can withstand all of these different interpretations and different styles and, that's what makes a classic character a classic character; they keep coming back and you see them in a new way every time.”

Way Different Character Stories Style Classic Remarkable Interpretation New Ways Coming Back Arthur Different Styles Conan Different Interpretations Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Author:Laura Linney

“Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.”

Ifs Writing Mind Firsts Character Light Style Ought Faithful Copies

Book:Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art

Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art

“40 Words for Sorrow is brilliant-one of the finest crime novels I've ever read. Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and compassion and he plots like a demon. This book has it all-unforgettable characters, beautiful language, throat-constricting suspense.”

Writing Book Character Beautiful Language Compassion Novel Grace Style Crime Sorrow Brilliant Suspense Demon Plot Throat Finest Uncommon Blunt Unforgettable Crime Novels

Author:Jonathan Kellerman

“Richard Gavin is one of the bright new stars in contemporary weird fiction. His richly textured style, deft character portrayal, and powerful horrific conceptions make every one of his tales a pleasure to read.”

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Author:S. T. Joshi

“My feeling is that it's one of the very few things that comics can do that you really can't do in any other medium. I feel like the reader accepts all of these styles, and after a certain point you can flip the pages and see a character rendered very differently than you saw on an earlier page, and it's not jarring. It suggests things that you can't suggest just in the writing or in the plotting.”

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Author:Daniel Clowes

“Since I do seven different styles of martial arts, I don't foresee myself fighting the same in any two movies. I think every fighting style should fit the character that's doing the fighting.”

Thinking Should Art Two Different Character Fighting Style Fit Seven Martial Arts Different Styles

Author:Michael Jai White

“From since I could remember I've always been an artist, drawing, painting and so forth. I would also always draw made up rock n' roll characters in a band who each had their own style and personalities. I think by accident I was already becoming a fashion designer.”

Thinking Made Character Remember Artist Rocks Fashion Style Painting Personality Becoming Band Draws Accidents Drawing Designer Rock N Roll Fashion Designer

Author:Ashley Purdy

“My style also has a lot to do with theater because often I'm imagining I'm a character who is wandering by a wall and leaves a mark. Then I'm someone else, who 10 days later leaves another mark. Someone was angry and did this, and then someone came and painted over it, and then the sun bleached it out and the weather exposed it again.”

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Author:Jose Parla

“You have to really think about what kind of guy the character is and decide on a style that works, that complements my physicality and that's going to be believable, but also be compelling for the audience and for the camera.”

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Author:Holt McCallany

“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.”

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Author:Dan Brown

“One of the first things was I made Arlo [the Apatosaurus] a younger character. And then when I was that age (around 11 or 12), what was I like? Sweat pants, turtle-neck kid; didn't know anything about fashion or style, the culture of the world. I was very sheltered.”

Knows World Firsts Made Character Kids Age Culture Fashion Style Necks Sweat Pants Turtles Cultures Of The World

Author:Peter Sohn

“People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter.”

People Writing Trying Character Style Jokes 140 Character

Author:Nick Thune

“Wild Bill was a strange character, add to this figure a costume blending the immaculate neatness of the dandy with the extravagant taste and style of a frontiersman, you have Wild Bill, the most famous scout on the Plains.”

Character Style Figures Strange Taste Bills Add Costumes Extravagant Immaculate Dandy Neatness

Author:George Armstrong Custer

“When friends enter a home, they sense its personality and character, the family's style of living - these elements make a house come alive with a sense of identity, a sense of energy, enthusiasm, and warmth , declaring: "This is how we are; this is how we live."”

Character Home House Energy Alive Style Identity Personality Elements Enthusiasm Warmth Declaring Personality And Character

Author:Ralph Lauren

“I think people are tired of the CSI/SVU style of lurid and gory crime dramas. I believe there's a craving for lighter shows featuring detective characters who are fun to watch. I think people would welcome that kind of show.”

People Thinking Believe Kind Character Shows Fun I Believe Watches Style Crime Drama Tired Welcome Craving Detectives Lighters Csi

Author:Carol Higgins Clark

“A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.”

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Book:Conversations with Norman Mailer

Source: Conversations with Norman Mailer

“Music helps define the character and is an extension of the character somehow, so that you are able to use both the songs themselves and the way that you sing them to tell something about the character and his story, as well as develop a performance style.”

Way Wells Character Helping Stories Use Able Song Style Performances Extensions

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out.”

People Character Bigs Individual Influence Style Sticks Cash June Carter Individual Style

Author:Shelby Lynne

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

Source: The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible

“Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds!”

Men May Character Body Eye Voice Written Style Expression Clothes Deeds Every Man Tone His Eyes Posture

Author:Napoleon Hill

“Not to say that the process assumes anything of "greater" or "lesser" importance, though: it's just more graphic information. Take the surrealists, for example, or a work by Cage. For me, there's a great value in doing this with literature. There's a certain form of dependence; process and product inform each other, depend on each other. I consider myself a writer who doesn't write with a style, almost. I begin with tension, with a vibe, a character.”

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Author:Sergio Chejfec

“My favorite artists from comics were early ones like Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko who had a real heavy ink style. Captain America, co created by Jack Kirby, was a favorite of mine and I sometimes use an altered version of his costume on some of my characters.”

Real Sometimes Character Use America Artist Style Mines My Favorite Heavy Versions Captains Costumes Ink Altered Favorite Artist

Author:Marcel Dzama

“My ability to adapt has always stood out. I've been immersed in many worlds and have had the influence of many things in my upbringing so I'm familiar with so many styles of living, so many characters, so many life paths and its just easy to simulate for me.”

World Character Easy Ability Path Influence Style Familiar Upbringing Life Path Simulate Ability To Adapt

Author:Aeriel Miranda

“I think when you have a band that are so separate and isolated then you have to know each others styles and characters quite well.”

Thinking Knows Wells Character Style Band Isolated

Author:Mat McNerney

“When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.”

Ifs Trying Littles Character Might Acting Situation Comedy Honest Style Drama Being Honest

Author:Jonah Hill

“Classic burlesque in the style of Gypsy which many modern burlesque troupes practice is, at its core, so playful and teasing and innocent. It's not hardcore stripping so much as letting your body tell a story; the women are playing characters and unfolding a complete narrative onstage, with beginning, middle, and end.”

Ends Character Stories Body Practice Modern Middle Style Your Body Core Innocent Narrative Classic Unfolding Tease Gypsy Hardcore Stripping Beginning Middle And End Burlesque Troupe

Author:Karen Abbott

“To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or her to speak, rather than speaking for them, in an older style of omniscient narration.”

Giving Character Speak Voice Style Ideals Vivid Ardent Omniscient Narration

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

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