What I want to try to do is unify the two wings of the Democratic Party. What's considered the more progressive wing… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
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
In order to perfect your craft, you've gotta go hard, you've gotta go overtime. — Ace Hood Copy Share Image
If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Unidentified flying objects are a very serious subject which we must study fully. We appeal to all viewers to send us details… — Felix Ziegel Copy Share Image
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe you shouldn't force the audience's interpretation of a character or a story. The more you explain things, the less intriguing… — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
The first several scenes are about sexual addiction. They're not specifically political at all. . . . I didn't sit down and… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
. . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I'm less confident now than I've ever been. In this peculiar craft, confidence is something you spend a lifetime losing. I used… — Glenda Jackson 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
The actor has to have some degree of craft, along with the talent. No one tries to laugh except bad actors. No… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft. — Lavrenti Lopes Copy Share Image
I took many notes, more than usual before I sat down and wrote Act One, Scene One. I had perhaps eighty pages… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
As long as you're consistently working on your craft, your heart is in the right place, and you pair that with being… — Jay Ellis Copy Share Image
That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
When do I say No? I say No when I feel that the intention of the play, or the spirit, or tone… — Lisa Loomer Copy Share Image
There is nothing more important in my life than my relationship with God and my faith. I have been so driven to… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey… — Geoffrey Chaucer 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
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
