If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician… — Billy Eckstine Copy Share Image
Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I'm just broadening my craft and stretching my skills a little bit in different directions. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I… — Robin Tunney Copy Share Image
My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
The only craft and technique you have legitimate access to is the craft and technique you forgot, that has dissolved itself into… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try… — Brittany Daniel Copy Share Image
We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting… — Scott Frank Copy Share Image
I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter,… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre.… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
“Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A… — Anne Archer Copy Share Image
[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates. She is… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Chad Michael Ward is a master of the storytelling craft. His imagery, both still and moving, reaches deep into the darkest corners… — Dave Navarro Copy Share Image
The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself. — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
I want to be able to discuss craft but I also want to teach writers to trust their instincts and learn to… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of… — Jim Grimsley Copy Share Image
The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really… — James MacArthur Copy Share Image
I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance. — H. W. Janson Copy Share Image
It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure? — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation… — Ron Dennis Copy Share Image
We're just people Jo he said quietly. Yeah I suppose. People with fangs who drink blood live a long time and apparently… — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding. — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
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