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Do your homework, study the craft, believe in yourself, and out-work everyone. — Justin Hires

I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography. — Jerry Uelsmann

You never stop learning your craft. That's the key to success within yourself as an actor. — Julianna Margulies

Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness. — H. W. Janson

My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content. — Andrew Wyeth

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it. — Mark Twain

I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts. — Andre Gide

I do choose to write for a living - in addition to writing plays. I no longer write sitcoms, and I no longer feel shame. — Lisa Loomer

[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 duality. — Lisa Loomer

When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person. — Pam Grier

To make your unknown known - that's the important thing. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better! — Paul Klee

A craft can only have meaning when it serves a spiritual way. — Titus Burckhardt

Wake the happy words. — Theodore Roethke

Are all your stars shining? — J.D. Salinger

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading. — Marie Arana

Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing. — Robert McKee

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft. — John Szarkowski

All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure. — Peter Carey

Racist writing is a craft failure. — Kwame Dawes

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it. — Harry Shearer

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else. — Howard Gordon

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp. — Ice-T

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization. — John Banville

The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within. — Bryant H. McGill

Practice ur craft and make it the best it can possibly be-Justin Timberlake — Justin Timberlake

Self-confidence can be crippling. — Leonard Michaels

Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush. — Peter Murphy

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another. — Elizabeth Bowen

Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis. — Annie Proulx

What one wants to do with stories is screw them up. — William H Gass

You have to know the human heart. — Thom Jones

When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three. — Harlan Ellison

The big secret is the ability to stay in the room. — Ron Carlson

Write from what you know into what you don't know. — Grace Paley

I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me. — Robert Bly

After a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat. — Anne Lamott

There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment. — Isaac Babel

I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective. — John Thorn

Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles. — William Zinsser

Many people make devices that can be used for good or evil. You cannot blame the blacksmith when the swords he crafts are used to kill. — Lindsay Buroker

That's the point of working with one's hands, you see. It gives the mind something else to do besides worry. — Charles Todd

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery. — Stephen Nachmanovitch

Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story. — William Kennedy

With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique. — Paul Gauguin

Good enough is never good enough. — Alfred Bertram Guthrie

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study. — LeCrae

If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that'll lead me to their blog, I'm going to their blog. — Anthony Bourdain

On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure. — Joyce Carol Oates

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art. — Luis Bunuel

Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled. — Edmund Burke

Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies. — Demetri Martin

I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding. — Priyanka Chopra

People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion. — Jay Sankey

Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft — Robin Sharma

Craft against craft makes no living. — George Herbert

We want someone to bring us the news. — William Gaddis

First thought, best thought. — Allen Ginsberg

All autobiography is fiction. — Sandra Tsing Loh

The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write. — Gabriel Fielding

Self-expression without craft is for toddlers. — Rosanne Cash

I do love action films and I hope I'm going to do many more and learn lots of new crafts 'cause that's the joy of movies. — Luke Evans

Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned. — Robert Scholes

The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty. — Edmund Gosse

What drives me? Surrounding myself with amazing talent to craft a breakthrough product which can be used by millions of people to change the world. — Mike McCue

Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft. — Henry Threadgill

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other. — Diane Johnson

Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft. — Sophocles

He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop. — George Herbert

Craft your love into everything — Lulu

Fill the moment and find variety. — Paul Newman

In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless. — Zubin Mehta

Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Any work of art must first of all tell a story. — Robert Frost

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends. — Robert Bly

Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft. — P.D. James

As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don't disrupt: Avoid competition as much as possible. — Peter Thiel

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing. — Alice Munro

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft — Tony Benn

Art without heart is craft. — Eric Gibbons

If you're looking for messages, try Western Union. — Ernest Hemingway,

Load every rift with ore. — John Keats

When you are calculating an hourly labor rate, add in an additional thirty percent to that rate cover employment taxes. — James Dillehay

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going? — Constantin Stanislavski

I was a young cat, and I was very fast, but I wasn't telling no kind of story. — Roy Eldridge

Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap! — Camryn Manheim

The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda. — Roger Scruton

In order to perfect your craft, you've gotta go hard, you've gotta go overtime. — Ace Hood

I believe in the honest craft of workmen. — Robert A. Heinlein

I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts. — George Miller

I just love the history of acting. It's such a beautiful craft and you absolutely get out of it what you put into it. — Miles Teller

I am a good model because I have mastered my craft. I have accepted my body, I know it well and I know how to move in front of the camera. — Crystal Renn

As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life. — Robin Sharma

I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal. — Saul Bellow

I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes. — Gabriel Campisi

You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft. — Twyla Tharp

Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft. — Judi Dench

You must render: never report. — Guy De Maupassant

In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies. — Martin Luther