A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
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The balance when you're catching people up, and the craft of what we do as actors, is to try to make sure… — Jack Coleman Copy Share Image
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I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time, a lot of energy trying to be a better artist and I still [do]. I spend… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia… — Ernest Nagel Copy Share Image
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I went in right up front and said, This can't be about some guy in bandages. I didn't even want to do… — Stephen Sommers Copy Share Image
There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. Every writer, every actor, every director knows… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
A knowledge of craft is not the enemy of creativity. You sit down to write and realize, today's going to be a… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far… — Lachlan Murdoch Copy Share Image
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I had a plot connection that nobody understood for this fourth character, and decided, Oh, nobody gets it, that's all. I'll write… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
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There is a policy response that needs to occur. There is also a technical response that needs to occur. It is the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
As long as this great army of workers is scattered among so many craft unions, it will be impossible for them to… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
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I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia,… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
If you can engage the influencer’s passions, and work with them to craft a compelling logical appeal, then you can leverage the… — Tom Webster Copy Share Image
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
On set, I like to be treated just like a normal adult actor. We all put as much time and effort into… — Chloe Grace Moretz Copy Share Image
I'm the one who's dating the craft-service guy instead of the producer. Plus, if a producer is going to date a hot… — Whitney Cummings Copy Share Image
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