Dorothy B. Hughes - there's a robust elegance to her writing that I keep responding to again and again. I've read her novel 'In a Lonely Place' about eight or nine times.
It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.
I love to wear my own Jade Jagger ball gowns. I love their timeless elegance, of course with my own jewelry.
I have so many ways I can explain the ballroom scene. But the essence of the ballroom scene would be elegance, extravagance, and fabulousness to its 100 per cent. It's a place where you can be whoever you want to be inside of already being who you are.
I was always intrigued by the idea of bringing things together that are considered taboo or risque and bringing them together with something of high elegance and sophistication.
I wanted to have a band that could rock as hard as the Who and sing like the Beatles and the Beach Boys; a band that could play concise, three-and-a-half minute songs with power and elegance.
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.