The industry is littered with self-styled purists who believe the business of media.. the requirement to make a profit.. somehow corrupts the… — Lachlan Murdoch Copy Share Image
Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Learn from your rejections and polish your craft. Write for the sheer joy of being creative. — Jonathan Weeks Copy Share Image
If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Actually, here is something I'm passionate about that, looking around me, seems like the world at large must not care about as… — Damian Kulash Copy Share Image
You have to know your craft. I find that most people who are very, very successful know their craft and have done… — Michael Ealy Copy Share Image
All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart. — David Ives Copy Share Image
In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the… — Cam Newton Copy Share Image
I learned early on that it's heartbreaking to - there's the editor that comes in, and then they have to craft the… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft,… — Douglas Conant Copy Share Image
The right way to deal with healthcare reform is not to have a one-size-fits-all plan that's imposed on all the states, but… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
It was never my dream to be famous. I didn’t start acting to be a movie star. I started in the theater… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
I've come to view screenwriting assignments as playwriting grants, because they provide a considerable financial cushion. However, they can also be extremely… — Donald Margulies Copy Share Image
My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus,… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more… — Jericho Brown Copy Share Image
The place has had a super-conflicted relationship to its mission. In 1956, it opened as the Museum of Contemporary Crafts. Then in… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing.… — Andrea Davis Pinkney Copy Share Image
To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing any artist can do is to constantly push themselves and improve their craft. — Ami Vitale Copy Share Image
What drives me? Surrounding myself with amazing talent to craft a breakthrough product which can be used by millions of people to… — Mike McCue Copy Share Image
I think when we talk of craft we talk of a certain set of processes, whether that be clay of glass if… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis. — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
When you have somebody who takes their craft seriously, you don't have to babysit them and be there all the time. — Adrian Marcel Copy Share Image
Most of my movies are indies. The best scripts I can find are independent films. But I love big-budget movies, I love… — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs. — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint… — Christina Milian Copy Share Image
Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I am able to apply certain things to my craft that maybe other comedians don't, because I'm a devotee. — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
