William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.
William Lewis Safir
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I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
Warren Ellis
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Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.
Queen Latifah
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The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.
Saku Koivu
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
Zach Gilford
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I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.
Ed Stoppard
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I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.
Samuel Barber
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I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.
Aaron Tippin
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My muse can take the form of a landscape, an era, a style of writing, a piece of music, and, perhaps that which I find strangest of all for a muse, a human female. Of course, she's also adept at taking the form of toothless old Japanese men or young English lads with tattoos.
Quentin S. Crisp
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Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
W. C. Fields
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I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.
Adam Carolla
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Rarely, I think, do you find a relationship where you can experience things equally.
Alicia Keys
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Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.
William Lewis Safir