Crafts Quotes - Page 12

• I introduced myself to Scorsese and I said, "If you need someone to do craft services, I'm there."

  William H. Macy

  Needs, Said, Ifs

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot give them spirit or soul if it's not there.

  Mary Gaitskill

  People, Appreciate, Giving

  Interview with by Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2009.

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• The thing about glitter is if you get it on you, be prepared to have it on you forever. Because glitter doesn't go away. Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Forever

  "What's So Funny?" by Rachel Rosenblit, www.elle.com. January 14, 2009.

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• Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly; but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• As long as you're consistently working on your craft, your heart is in the right place, and you pair that with being smart on how you present yourself to people, opportunities will appear.

  Jay Ellis

  Smart, Heart, Opportunity

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• Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of it. And finally, don't forget that the biggest joy in photography is making pictures of those things in your own life.

  David Burnett

  Photography, Joy, Firsts

  Source: theonlinephotographer.typepad.com

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• I am really inspired by writers, and weirdly - respect music journalists, which I think makes me the exception amongst most musicians. I think it's a craft. I think it's been really neglected - sadly. I think about the days of the great legendary rock critics. Who's going to become that when magazines and newspapers don't pay anyone properly or don't seem to respect the history or research that is required?

  Emily Haines

  Thinking, Rocks, Pay

  Source: www.sfcritic.com

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• Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over pure feeling. Write the work that someone besides you will want to read.

  David Starkey

  Writing, Voice, Feelings

  Source: andreaauten.wordpress.com

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• That is another reason this transition for me into soaps makes sense for me, because I would get to work at my craft every day. I would be able to play this very real character.

  Darius McCrary

  Real, Character, Play

  "The Darius McCrary Interview- The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.

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• Writing original songs is much, much harder (I think) because you only have yourself to conjure up EVERY single moment a listener is going to hear. It's a craft that goes directly from your brain to their ears. You can never be sure that what you're writing is gonna be good enough to keep a listener engaged and truly experience something. It's a shot in the dark.

  Alex Goot

  Song, Single Mom, Writing

  Interview with Kenneth Wong, www.popcultureonline.net. 2014.

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• Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master.

  James Johnson

  Writing, Masters, Difficult

  Source: www.fantasybookreview.co.uk

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• Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  Art, Pieces, Ninety

  Source: slushpile.net

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• One of my favorite things to do is to craft and to write songs and tell stories, and another thing is to really just flip out basically, and release kind of my unruly energies.

  Eugene Hutz

  Song, Writing, Stories

  Source: cltampa.com

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• I just really enjoying creating in general; I used to also write stories and play music and do different crafts, but illustration ended up being the creative outlet that I focused on for my career. I feel like illustration gives me the flexibility to tackle more abstract or loose ideas, as well as just enjoy the process of putting time into developing a skill.

  Julie Dillon

  Writing, Illustration, Play

  Interview with Loraine Sammy, www.apex-magazine.com. March 4, 2014.

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• I encourage my students to be honest in their assessment of both the published work we read and the work of their classmates. I think there's always the occasion for discussing elements of craft, whether the student's poem is terrible or quite wonderful.

  Cate Marvin

  Thinking, Assessment, Elements

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• The work element comes into it as well - how much you train and how much work you put into your craft, in the same way a carpenter would perhaps work under a great teacher, etc.

  Paul Rankin

  Teacher, Elements, Way

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I'm not one that just throws music out there to keep it coming, and all that. I believe in the craft, and the time it takes to really nurture something and put a lot of effort into the details.

  Christina Aguilera

  Believe, Effort, Details

  "Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine, Blake Shelton and Pharrell Williams Talk The Voice". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 24, 2015.

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• An elegant simplicity is an understated, organic aesthetic that contrasts with the excess of consumerist lifestyles. Drawing from influences ranging from Zen to the Quakers, it celebrates natural materials and clean, functional expressions, such as are found in many of the hand-made arts and crafts from this community.

  Duane Elgin

  Art, Expression, Hands

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• I don't know if it was a defining moment. I knew it as soon as I could comprehend the possibility of having a career. I knew very young I wanted to be a movie star. As much as I grew into love of the craft. As soon as I could speak I was auditioning and going to classes every day. It was my life.

  Columbus Short

  Stars, Class, Careers

  Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 2, 2009.

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• Just movies in general. It's such a wonderful business as much as you feel, you are fine tuning your craft, every movie is a completely different challenge. Every fight sequence is different. Every action set piece. I enjoy that.

  Len Wiseman

  Fighting, Movies In General, Challenges

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview With Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates you, what separates an actor from an artist.

  Nicole Kidman

  Artist, Play, Bullshit

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

  Spencer Tracy

  Fake People, Voice, Personality

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

  Robert Stone

  Moving, Writing, Cutting

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• In a given scene I may know nothing more than how it's supposed to end, most of the time not even that. Scenes are improvised. A character does or says something, and with as much spontaneity and schizophrenia as I can muster, another character responds. In this way, everything I write is spontaneous chain reaction and I'm running around playing leapfrog in my brain trying to "be" all my people.

  Richard Price

  Running, Character, Writing

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• You should let dialogue get as nearly out of control as you can. Characters should say what they say to each other instead of what they mean to say. The worst purpose of dialogue is to elicit information: "You know why we're out on this space station, Carruthers - to save the universe!"

  Robert Stone

  Character, Mean, Space

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