She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way… — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
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Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending,… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen,… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story… — Janice Y. K. Lee Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The craft's occupants clutched their armrests, and more than one of them closed their eyes. But not Artemis. He couldn't. There was… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
I want to seduce the audience. If they can go along for a ride they wouldn't ordinarily take, or don't even know… — Paula Vogel Copy Share Image
I do love action films and I hope I'm going to do many more and learn lots of new crafts 'cause that's… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
Good preparation is key for me. Nowadays everyone is an actor slash writer, slash this, slash that, its cool; and you can… — Jaime Zevallos Copy Share Image
The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
If you've got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing… — Robert Mark Kamen Copy Share Image
Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image