Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Quotes

All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living.

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

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• Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

  

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• I'm not fashionable, and I know nothing about fashion, but I have my individual style, and style is eternal.

  

  Vidya Balan
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• I like to come into my workspace and feel it's a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.

  

  Sadie Jones
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• My personal style is ever changing.

  

  India de Beaufort
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• Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
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• I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
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• I run away from super-bandage-style Herve Leger dresses. I think it's sexier for a woman to be in something sheer and loose.

  

  Kat Graham
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• The leadership of the Palestinian Authority is not held in high regard by most of the population of the West Bank. They're seen as living relatively high off the hog and certainly not accomplishing anything vis-a-vis the Israelis.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • High
  • Leadership
  • Living

• I like when people have Western style, but it's throwback Seventies-ish. I like pearlsnap shirts and a bow-tie like the KFC man.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Man
  • Style

• I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • America
  • Kind

• I love crop tops and love the way Taylor Swift teams them. Her style is relaxed; I can relate to it.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Way
  • Style
  • Relate

• A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

  

  Wallace Stevens
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  • Need
  • Meaning

• I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Hope
  • Style
  • Influences

• My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Style
  • Human
  • Diplomacy

• Prince, you never knew what to expect from him from one album to the next. Miles Davis was like that. You know, once you get used to one style, boom, he switched it and, you know, switched gears on you. So those artists are very exciting to me, very exciting to follow their path, you know, and their journey.

  

  D'Angelo
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  • Path
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• It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Good
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  • Style

• I've lifted weights ever since I was a teenager, but I started going more towards the Olympic weightlifting style, which is clean and jerk.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• I love to be in Hawaii - everything very natural, and my style reflects that.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • Style

• Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
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  • Forgotten
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• Each individual garment has its own customizations based on a collaboration between us and the designer. We say what we think our woman wants, and they say, 'This is what we think we can do with our production.'

  

  Aslaug Magnusdottir
  • Collaboration

• By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.

  

  Constantine Manos
  • Time
  • Subject
  • Transform

• It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is.

  

  Richard Parks Bland
  • Present
  • Maintained
  • Precisely

• If I'm just in dungarees, I don't think I would intimidate anyone.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Think
  • Just
  • Would

• All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living.

  

  Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
  • Style
  • Living
  • Meaning