Be yourself. Forget about whether you are male or female and just work hard to become a director who truly knows her… — Mabel Cheung Copy Share Image
I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive...And since I'm a songwriter and I connect with an… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
I definitely write from a need to try, in my own two hours, to right a wrong. My little play is inconsequential… — Lisa Loomer Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of actors -- one sits in a dressing room waiting for his call and the other gets out… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
[Saniyya Sidney] was very serious about her work and her craft, and she wanted to be good, and she wanted to work… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
To arrive at a place called Mastery, you must commit to daily and rigorous practice. Enjoy practising your craft for its own… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
I feel like God has moved me into a different way of doing things. I teach basic on-camera acting class called Acting… — Patricia Mauceri Copy Share Image
We would like to give special thanks to all those Americans who built the spacecraft; who did the construction, design, the tests,… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Kristen is really focused and really quiet, as an actress. She just does her thing, but she's cool. I like her. I… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
And Prometheus was flying directly toward them. William Shakespeare shifted uncomfortably in his seat. "Now, I've never been a warrior,and I know… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud,… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
I was not interested in doing the plot of OEDIPUS in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Writing about real stuff that really concerned me brought out my craft. If you're writing a story about, 'Is Lois Lane gonna… — Dennis O'Neil Copy Share Image
I can't draw. But I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I find that I have improved in my craft and I have improved considerably in my ability to critique other people's artwork.… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too… — Giovanni Ribisi Copy Share Image
One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing… — Pearl Cleage 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
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
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
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
It's easy for me to be vulnerable and craft songs when I'm being a hermit in my woods loft, secluded. When I… — Rachael Yamagata 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
The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects,… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to… — David Ives Copy Share Image
Just movies in general. It's such a wonderful business as much as you feel, you are fine tuning your craft, every movie… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
Most of the great practitioners of the art of acting know exactly what they're doing; even in the best, most successful moments,… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I have even taught classes on writing about sex, and I've looked closely at different writers' sex scenes. On the level of… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
Never hesitate to imitate another writer. Imitation is part of the creative process for anyone learning an art or a craft. Bach… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I actually think that craft service was the reason I got into acting: the free food. I literally remember on my first… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
It's my belief that cooking is a craft. I think that you can push it into the realm of art, but it… — Tom Colicchio Copy Share Image
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