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“I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.”

Mean Ideas Inspiration Opinion Design Personality Taste Creating Crafts Fabric

Author:Olivier Theyskens

“By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.”

Knows Men Should Age Young Lying Personality Taste Twenties Maturity Young Man Specialists Deathbed Immaturity Premium Postponing

Author:Bill Vaughan

“It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.”

Doe Personality Taste Ugly Suits Bad Taste Gaudy

Book:King Of The Murgos: (Malloreon 2)

Source: King Of The Murgos: (Malloreon 2)

“I have less time, less tolerance for bullshit, more interest in good taste, more confidence in my own judgement. The culture with which I surround myself is a reflection of my personality and the circumstances of my life, which is in part how it should be.”

Should Culture Interest My Own Personality Circumstances Taste Reflection Tolerance Judgement Surround Bullshit Good Taste

Book:Songbook

Source: Songbook

“A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or were told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.”

Writing Looks Film Young Fiction Crime Personality Hero Taste Mediums Supposed To Be Lazy Grants Crime Fiction Fiction Writing Protagonists Taste In Music

Author:Peter Temple

“Ben [Peeler] and I have known each other for a decade. He trusts my crazy ideas and spontaneous combustion and he gets the players I want and knows the kind of personality players I like. He has taste that I trust and that to me is more important than any technical things.”

Knows Want Kind Important Ideas Known Player Crazy Personality Taste Decades Spontaneous Combustion Crazy Ideas Spontaneous Combustion

Author:Shelby Lynne

“Fashion is about having a point of view, a taste and a personality. For us we always felt we could apply our DNA really to anything but you have to do it if it's true to you, feels authentic. It has to be real.”

Ifs Feels Real Felt Views Fashion Personality Taste Point Of View Being Real Dna

Author:Karen Walker

“If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer. Now if a joke is in bad taste or it's not funny, okay, that's awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer's job is, and I don't think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.”

“I like carrots that have got a bit of personality and have three or four legs! They may look weird but they taste fantastic.”

Looks May Three Bits Four Personality Taste Legs Fantastic Carrots

Author:William Katt

“Some people say I'm kinda country, but I like to take risks on fashion. I kinda go left sometimes, so you can get a taste of my personality.”

People Country Sometimes Left Risk Fashion Personality Taste

Author:Toni Braxton

“The decline of true taste for food is the beginning of a decline in a national culture as a whole. When people have lost their authentic personal taste, they lose their personality and become the instruments of other people's wills.”

People Whole Culture Lost Loses Personality Taste Instruments Decline Personal Taste National Culture

Author:Robert Graves

“I've heard of people stopping their cars, having car wrecks, all kinds of things. But most of the banjo players I know had that moment when they heard Earl Scruggs. So, for me, it transcends the technique. It's the musician in him and his personality, his musical personality, such great taste, such great technique, very, very creative.”

People Knows Kind Moments Creative Player Heard Car Personality Taste Musician Musical Technique All Kinds That Moment Stopping Wrecks Banjos Car Wreck Banjo Players

Author:Earl Scruggs

“Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.”

Source: Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer

“A great many things determine how people live, and money is not at the top of the list. Choices are always available. What you choose will depend on how you see things: yourself, your work, your right to express taste and desire and personality, your understanding of the love of God as expressed in His creation and order and harmony.”

People Desire Order Choices Understanding Creation Personality Depends Taste Harmony Determine Available Lists God Love You Choose

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“Behold the Drojim Palace," King Urgit said extravagantly to Sadi, "the hereditary home of the House of Urga." "A most unusual structure, You Majesty," Sadi murmured. "That's a diplomatic way to put it." Urgit looked critically at his palace. "It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.”

Way Doe Said Home House Personality Kings Taste Structure Ugly Suits Unusual Majesty Palaces Diplomatic Bad Taste Hereditary Gaudy

Author:David Eddings