We have the ability to craft a life where we are completely fulfilled. We think it is dependent on outsiders, and to… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
It looks glamorous and wonderful, but it's a job like any other. And I think that's their humility coming through, Joel [Coen]… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
A lot of people just love music, especially a lot of aspiring artists. They just want to jump in and start making… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets,… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
The rough and ready improvisational quality to life on board the International Space Station is reminiscent of a long trip in a… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after… — Lanford Wilson 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
Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience of sitting in front of a blank page, with its toothless mouth grinning at… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I study everything that I do to become better all the time at my craft. The beauty for me about being an… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
By Cunning & Craft is a masterpiece of writing about writing. If, like Scheherazade, you had to spin out a story under… — Nora Gallagher Copy Share Image
Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked--and laughed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
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I would go to the craft services table and have Oreos or whatever, and a grown woman would come up to me… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
In France, we don't yet have the craft that American TV does or big studios like Paramount. It was so cool going… — Lizzie Brochere 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
A playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
People who say they're not nervous - I would be kind of curious to see how successful you are at what you… — Randy Johnson Copy Share Image
Each photographer has their own vibe and presence that they bring to their shoots. Steven Meisel is a teacher. He teaches everyone… — Kylie Bax Copy Share Image
You learn a great deal that you can feed into your craft which gives you the experience that you actually need later… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern &… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I love working with my hands. The computer has taken over my life in a way that makes me really uncomfortable. I'm… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I think what traditional studios probably don't understand is that it's a genuine advancement in the actor's tradition. And you know, the… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who are artists, they want their music, their art, their acting craft to get out. And once it's appreciated, that seems… — Michael Wright Copy Share Image
I don't spend that much time in the studio. When I first started doing music, I was in the studio every day… — Fetty Wap Copy Share Image
My entire life, I've always known that I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know exactly how, where or when.… — Laz Alonso Copy Share Image
We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
Study your craft, first. Then explore the business side. If you can commit to mastering both, then you're ready to pursue acting… — Michael Ealy Copy Share Image