What I want to try to do is unify the two wings of the Democratic Party. What's considered the more progressive wing of the Democratic Party - the more centrist wing of the party. I think we can craft an approach that is more American, pro-worker, pro-business, pro-growth.
I try to think of myself as a struggling competitor or specialist at my craft, much like a singer, dancer, comedian, or actor. So I'm struggling to do my craft and I'm continually trying to learn to do it better. I think that's what's really been my secret.
As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft.
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
Your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling, and everything to do with how you treat yourself.
I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
Never confuse movement with action.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
I would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in 'My Left Foot.' That was the equivalent of seeing Haley's Comet for me. I just couldn't understand how that was possible.
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.
Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren.
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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