Crafts Quotes - Page 34

• It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the craft in order to strengthen the muscular structure of the body. The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. The movement become clean, precise, eloquent, truthful. Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. This might be called the law of the dancer's life, the law which governs its outer aspects

  Martha Graham

  Lying, Order, Years

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• I remember growing up, getting the Colorado Springs Sun in the morning and the Denver Post in the afternoon, and my dad just inhaling both of them, and me waiting to get the sports page from him. I fell in love with the craft. I remember being 9 years old and playing baseball in the backyard and coming in and writing little newspaper articles for my dad.

  Pat Forde

  Sports, Baseball, Morning

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• You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

  Twyla Tharp

  Creativity, Kidding Yourself, Ifs

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• I have definitely noticed that I care less about certain things. Other actors are like: "You can't do that", or "You can't do this. This will position you in the wrong way." That's not my thing. And obviously so, because you can see I don't craft or cultivate my career.

  Ben Affleck

  Careers, Actors, Way

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• The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Appreciation, Gratitude

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• Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India.

  Terence McKenna

  Dirty, Buddhism, India

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• The average movie set is the least political arena on Earth. Nobody bothers talking about politics because, one, we all love the job so much. You don't talk about current events. You talk about old show business stories and whether or not there's gonna be French onion dip at the craft services table that day.

  Tom Hanks

  Jobs, Average, Talking

  "Eastwood and Hanks talk 'Sully,' their film about the ‘humble, smiling hero’ who landed on the Hudson River". Interview with Rebecca Keegan, www.latimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

  Chinua Achebe

  Commitment, Artist, Political

  "Rip Chinua Achebe (1930 - 2013)" by Lisa Dusenbery, therumpus.net. March 22, 2013.

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• A playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature of the audience response - not necessarily to learn anything about his craft, but as often as not merely to find out about the temper of the time, what is being tolerated, what is being permitted.

  Edward Albee

  Attention, Pay, Should

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.46, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• That's the type of thing you need to keep in mind when drawing comics. The storytelling. Consider the action and the space available to you, that's what will make it a great comics page. Once you've figured that out, you can always find/make the reference to support your storytelling decisions. So by all means, study film, but as with any reference, the results are better when they inform the craft and not dictate it.

  Declan Shalvey

  Mean, Drawing, Space

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• The story goes that every Jedi constructs his own lightsaber, and every penmonkey constructs his own pen. Meaning, we all find our own way through this crazy tangle of possibility. This isn't an art, a craft, a career, or an obsession that comes with easy answers and isn't given over to bullshit dichotomies. We do what we do in the way we do it and hope it's right. Read advice. Weigh it in your hand and determine its value. But at the end of the day - and at the start of it - what you should be doing is writing. Because thinking about writing and talking about writing just plain isn't writing.

  Chuck Wendig

  Art, Crazy, Writing

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• Stay humble to the craft and never forget how much it actually takes to be the main character of a documentary.

  Nicole Nielsen Horanyi

  Humble, Character, Documentaries

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.

  Ann Patchett

  Book, Writing, Character

  Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2016.

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• I would go to the craft services table and have Oreos or whatever, and a grown woman would come up to me and look at what I was eating and sigh and go, "I remember the days when I could eat like that." And I never knew what to say that, because I was 9.

  Mara Wilson

  Oreos, Looks, Tables

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Hollywood stuff in the book tended to come later. I think it was because I was worried about leading with that stuff. I wanted to try to make sure that the other stories in the book were as interesting. I wanted to spend more time on them and craft them. The thing is, with writing, it's form or content.

  Mara Wilson

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I try to only work with people whose craft I believe in.

  Donnis

  Believe, People, Trying

  "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martin, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.

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• I feel that puttin' in the hours and years in the studio, honing my craft, definitely played a part, me consciously networking and presenting myself as an artist that's commercially sellable led to me meeting the right people, which in turn led to them givin' me positive referrals to other people, which in turn led to me signin' a deal.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Artist, Years, People

  Source: djbooth.net

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• I've never done a lead role in a film this big [like Doctor Strange], in a franchise this big. One of the reasons was, I wanted to know what the toy box was like. And it's just insane, the amount of facility that everyone gets, but the amount of artistry and craft that's brought to every aspect of filmmaking. I mean, you go to your first costume fitting and it's one of thirty. It's a myriad, but it's for a reason. There are so many incredible costumes in this.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Mean, Doctors, Insane

  Source: collider.com

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• I've done a lot of crafts in my day. I learned how to do pottery, yoga... and I just wanted to share and talk and write.

  Parker Posey

  Yoga, Writing, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the Ridley Scott film 'The Martian' you can do that [virtually driving car]. I have lifted off in the space craft from the surface of Mars, walked in space and looked down into deep space and got terrified, with the headphones and the goggles.

  Martin Sorrell

  Space, Car, Goggles

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft and their patients and the institution of the NHS. We should be very proud of it.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Crazy, Doctors, Nhs

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I am able to apply certain things to my craft that maybe other comedians don't, because I'm a devotee.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Comedian, Able, Certain

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Bodybuilding is my craft and because it is my craft it dictates how I live. Because it dictates how I live it's not just what I do in the gym but it's also an accepted lifestyle.

  Kai Greene

  Bodybuilding, Lifestyle, Accepted

  Source: www.awesome-body.club

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• I think your posing and your onstage presentation is yet another piece of the craft. So anytime you get onstage to show the muscles and show the finished work, that should be looked at with the same kind of respect and appreciation. I'm glad everybody else appreciates it, but I still want to get better.

  Kai Greene

  Appreciation, Thinking, Appreciate

  Source: www.awesome-body.club

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• 150 years ago in [Charles] Dickens's time there was at least a sense of craft. So some of the things people had inside of them, they had the possibility of expressing in the making of things - even in a daily way with their clothes or their food. People made a good deal of both themselves. Now our daily lives are almost all consumption. Craft plays a tiny role.

  Zadie Smith

  Clothes, Years, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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