Jane Austen Quotes

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

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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.

  

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• It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.

  

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• You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.

  

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• Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

  

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

  

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• To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.

  

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• It comes down to personal style, and that's what's sexy and attractive in a man.

  

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• Handwritten political posters - often composed in an artless and unadorned style, usually just words on plain white paper - were ubiquitous in South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s and were one of the few outlets available for expressing political views. Most posters were anonymous and put up under the cover of night.

  

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• If things are crazy in the studio, usually the road is times 10.

  

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• It would be lovely if it was all Right vs. Wrong, Good overcomes Evil - I think most Americans, going about their daily lives, fool themselves into thinking that that's how our little world works, but it just isn't so.

  

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• To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Style
  • Rejected
  • Improper