That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the… — Kent McCord Copy Share Image
Definitely I want to be rewarded for my craft and take care of my family 'cause at the end of the day… — Sean Price Copy Share Image
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I'm 19 years old. I think I'm doing a pretty good job...Basically from my heart I really just want to say it… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about doing accessories and making shoes and handbags. I don't think my perspective has really changed. The subtlety… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent… — Sherwood Boehlert Copy Share Image
I just started to understand my craft, what I wanted to do as an artist. It's just a growing process. Figuring out… — Young De Copy Share Image
The camera course was a bit crap. But when I was in drama school, I wasn't interested. I wanted to be a… — Phoebe Fox Copy Share Image
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill,… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
I do a lot of the stuff that I started out doing that I think any guitar player that's concerned about the… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of respect for the craft, I don't know how much respect it has for me. But it's… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
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Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit… — Alfred Sisley Copy Share Image
I never really thought about acting as a child. It wasn't like, "This is the career that I want to pursue." So… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
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I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
I saw a fleet of fishing boats...I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
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Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
Now I'm on the rise, doin' business with my guys. Visions realize, music [your craft] affected lives. A gift from the skies,… — Common Copy Share Image
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Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile, They will, they will not; fools that on them trust; For in their… — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
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![“Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories…” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ff6/william-faulkner-306_absolutes_yes-sir-you-can-be-more-careless-you-can_1716854.png)
![“All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality and authorship is lost. That's why you're seeing superstars like Brad Pitt in THE FIGHT CLUB and Tom Cruise in MAGNOLIA. They're desperately…” quote by Paul Schrader](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e40/paul-schrader-14587_authorship_all-these-teachers-and-screenwriting-boo_176880.png)
![“I'm drawn to very large texts that are mammothly popular in different parts of the world but are almost unknown here [the USA]. They're safe bets; if they've been around for 2,000 years, there's a reason. It's often a title or just a phrase within the text that will compel me to adapt it.” quote by Mary Zimmerman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/082/mary-zimmerman-56887_crafts_i-m-drawn-to-very-large-texts-that-are-m_2218869.png)
![“Now I'm on the rise, doin' business with my guys. Visions realize, music [your craft] affected lives. A gift from the skies, to be recognized, I'm keeping my eye on the people, that's the prize” quote by Common](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7ca/common-2673_affected_now-i-m-on-the-rise-doin-business-with-m_2768516.png)
![“Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile, They will, they will not; fools that on them trust; For in their speech is death, hell in their smile. [It., Femmina e cosa garrula e fallace: Vuole e disvuole, e folle uom chi sen fida, Si tra se volge.]” quote by Torquato Tasso](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/39c/torquato-tasso-21954_communication_women-have-tongues-of-craft-and-hearts-o_782153.png)
