A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. — Tristan Jones Copy Share Image
Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp. — Ice T Copy Share Image
And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us… — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I couldn't go any higher with three Michelin stars. I mastered my craft. I'm still learning and picking up ideas. — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing: For still… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
This is about the daily ins and outs of a marriage. I don't want to give away the ending, but they are… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I think you can tilt too far to the side of the story where the message is just simply entertainment. So I… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are… — James Wan Copy Share Image
Actually the years when I was playing totally un - well, they were just roles that just went by the board, you… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
Kun-Yang Lin is a young Taiwanese choreographer with strong American modern dance roots. (His) New York debut at the Cunningham studio were… — Jennifer Dunning Copy Share Image
People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
There's very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation]… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
. . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very,… — David Hare Copy Share Image
You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept… — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
[I was] particularly eager to give voice to the women of my mother's place and generation, who grew up in turn-of-the-century, privileged… — Tina Howe Copy Share Image
Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
![“There's very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made. Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure. . . . A composite too are the neighbours…” quote by Alan Bennett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e7/alan-bennett-1922_adjustment_there-s-very-little-in-the-substance-of_239144.jpg)
![“. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation] of your book? And I had no idea that he would answer me, because he's pretty elusive. But he did send a letter back that said, Yes, you can do that - as long as the only instrument in the…” quote by Laurie Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b8/laurie-anderson-3908_adaptation_i-wrote-a-letter-to-thomas-pynchon-askin_2978759.jpg)
![“You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept testers, advertising people. What you find gets the high numbers is easily appealing subjects: a baby, a big broad joke, a high concept. Everything is tested. The effect…” quote by James L. Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/305/james-l-brooks-9871_advertising_you-have-more-and-more-people-coming-int_784980.png)
![“[I was] particularly eager to give voice to the women of my mother's place and generation, who grew up in turn-of-the-century, privileged New England households, who really never had a chance to flower and assess themselves and find out who they were. More than anything, I wanted to give voice to…” quote by Tina Howe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6d/tina-howe-64893_century_i-was-particularly-eager-to-give-voice-t_1649709.png)
