In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great… — Peter Facinelli Copy Share Image
Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft. — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and… — Lisa Loomer Copy Share Image
The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting. — James Lipton Copy Share Image
If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile. — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always… — Robert Dugoni Copy Share Image
In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
I think this is an exciting time to be a female filmmaker. Trust your instincts, work harder than anyone else and learn… — Alex Hammond Copy Share Image
An elegant simplicity is an understated, organic aesthetic that contrasts with the excess of consumerist lifestyles. Drawing from influences ranging from Zen… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any company that has the same tools as Martha Stewart Living does, and people know that. They really… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
I thought if I was going to live a life in this land I was accidentally born on, I must people it;… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
When people see me knitting, I tell them I'm a knitter. Not the sort of knitter they may have run into before,… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
Whenever someone asks me craft questions like that I feel like I can give one of two answers. I can give the… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Most actors don't understand acting. I think it's an art form that craft is out the window. I don't think people get… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Telling the complete story of VeggieTales would require much more time than we have before us tonight. Since this is Yale, I… — Phil Vischer Copy Share Image
The culturally specific, in particular, the American porch play that American writers have cherished and loved for many years in terms of… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The greatest thing about form and convention is that it saves you from having to reinvent the wheel. Now, whether you mount… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Some crafts have been practiced for centuries. These crafts were created using skills passed from generation to generation, and were motivated by… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to… — Gavin Hood Copy Share Image
Film-makers in Belgium are seen as arts and crafts makers. It is a small country. There is not really a film industry… — Luc Dardenne Copy Share Image
An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I still go to acting class. I love the craft. It's just so much fun for me, and I'm always a student. — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep… — Lauren Tarshis Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera. — Thomas Jane Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at… — Jeff Goldblum Copy Share Image
I don't write [screenplay character] biographies beforehand. I usually go in knowing some sequences: this is where I want to start, this… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts. — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
If [after one role] you believe that you've mastered acting and you don't have to study the craft or get a deeper… — Usher Copy Share Image
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