“Only two bags, huh?" Helga was eighty, feisty, and the fastest knitter Elsie had ever seen. “We’ll have to work on that.… — Debora Geary Copy Share Image
. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The competition, the naysayers, the owners who talk too much. The people who don't think a 36-year-old can do what I do.… — Kevin Garnett Copy Share Image
I never thought in terms of typing myself, because I wasn't that successful. After an actor has done a few pieces of… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
It's strange, 'cause a play, you start at the beginning and you go all the way through to the end. So it's… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
Oh, my darling, wish you were here! And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
This is some fellow, Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness and constrains the garb Quite from his… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
Craft takes time, and therefore it is luxury. You cannot do an amazingly well-made garment without taking time—not just the time it… — Isabel Toledo Copy Share Image
There is no nobler chore in the craft of writing than holding up the mirror of reality and turning it slightly, so… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever,… — James Lafferty Copy Share Image
The difference between art and craft lies not in the tools you hold in your hands, but in the mental set that… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
I've never been really interested in music, classical or otherwise, where the craft is more important than the result. I realized quickly… — Anna Meredith Copy Share Image
You can just reload, propel it and fly again. This is extremely important for revolutionizing access to space because as long as… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
I would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in 'My… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things… — Jordan Bridges Copy Share Image
The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization,… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
We must elevate the craft, protect its interests, advance wages, reduce the hours of labor, spread correct economic doctrines and cultivate a… — Peter J. McGuire Copy Share Image
I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every film I have made has corresponded to a very special moment of my life. I like to think that if someone… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
As for the industry, it has certainly changed. I think with all of these television shows and YouTube and the internet, you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I don't know if it was a defining moment. I knew it as soon as I could comprehend the possibility of having… — Columbus Short Copy Share Image
In comedy you feel you need to go back to the theatre every now and again, you feel you need to go… — Mathew Baynton Copy Share Image
Do not think your story [for a one-person show] is unique. . . . your story is the same as millions of… — Julie Halston Copy Share Image
And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
The "magic if" is a tool invented by Stanislavski, the father of acting craft, is to help an actor make appropriate choices.… — Bruce Miller Copy Share Image
No matter how much creativity goes into it, cooking is an art. Or perhaps I should say a craft. It abides by… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image