Crafts Quotes

929 Crafts quotes by 710 unique authors

Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts… — Gene Logsdon
Writing is not magic. It’s a craft, a process, a set of steps. As with any process, things sometimes break down. Even in a good… — Roy Peter Clark
The more I grew as a human being, the better I became at my craft. — R.A. Dickey
Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of… — David Foster
The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He… — Steven Pressfield
Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of… — Jane Rule
When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really took care of… — James MacArthur
And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has become the motif… — Michel Foucault
Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap! — Camryn Manheim
. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare - how… — Wole Soyinka
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you say,… — Wendy Wasserstein
The first several scenes are about sexual addiction. They're not specifically political at all. . . . I didn't sit down and think, I am… — Christopher Durang
[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that… — Lisa Loomer
I now know that to do a worthwhile family history I must interpret the past without falling into either demonizing or unquestioning acceptance. . .… — David Henry Hwang
The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time. — David Hare
On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon. Jeanne is the… — Claude Chabrol
I was not interested in doing the plot of OEDIPUS in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like if they hadn't… — Rita Dove
At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I… — Lanford Wilson
I thought if I can do something more playful and light like my play BEYOND THERAPY, it might be a money maker. I think one… — Christopher Durang
I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in… — Edward Albee
And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . . Do I choose… — Edward Zwick
The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work. — Tony Kushner
I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her prayers, the contents… — August Wilson
If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't… — Noah Wyle
What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison d'etre for many… — Caridad Svich

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