Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you. — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“That's the point of working with one's hands, you see. It gives the mind something else to do besides worry.” — Charles Todd Copy Share Image
In the practice of any craft, we are less concerned with the quantity of the product than with its quality, and less… — Lanza del Vasto Copy Share Image
All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy. — Henry James Copy Share Image
it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it — Alfred Lansing Copy Share Image
I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage?… — Alan Ayckbourn Copy Share Image
Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster.… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn't trying to sell you anything, but… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
A lot of people come to quote-unquote Hollywood thinking that all they just have to be different or do something outlandish or… — Morris Chestnut Copy Share Image
I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
You have to be ready to go through peaks and valleys along the way. Be ready to sacrifice some of the things… — Kyle Cassie Copy Share Image
I'm giving up acting. . . . I'm 66 and there are a number of celebrations I've got to get down on… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
150 years ago in [Charles] Dickens's time there was at least a sense of craft. So some of the things people had… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Don’t look at other people and compare yourself. Just do the work. Because when the opportunity is there, you have to be… — Tika Sumpter Copy Share Image
I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The actor has to have some degree of craft, along with the talent. No one tries to laugh except bad actors. No… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the… — John Gillespie Magee, Jr Copy Share Image
Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
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