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  • For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.

  • Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.

    Interview with Ryan Bartelmay, believermag.com. May 15, 2018.
  • Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.

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

    Ego   Ordinary   Crafts  
  • A play gets on Broadway by fluke. And you don't even start out with that ambition. When I do a play, the intention is just to put it up somewhere.

    Ambition   Play   Crafts  
  • I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I read the two sentences over and turn them both around. Then I lie down on my sofa and think. Then I get up and throw them out and start from the beginning.

    "The Ghost Writer". Book by Philip Roth, 1979.
  • Telling the complete story of VeggieTales would require much more time than we have before us tonight. Since this is Yale, I decided to craft a shorter version of the story, using very large words. Remembering though that I was kicked out of Bible College before I'd had a chance to learn many very large words, I concluded that my only remaining option was to tell the story simply, using simple words, and chance the consequences.

    Simple   College   Yale  
    "The Philosophical Implications of Talking Vegetables". Speech at Yale University, March 02, 2005.
  • Everyone who became great at something has a similar story: For years, they worked on their craft every day, even if they weren’t in the mood. Always pushing, practicing, working, and improvingYes it takes thousands of hours of practice, but that’s good news! It’s a clear path and it’s under your control.

    Years   Practice   News  
  • So I made an outline. Well, you know, days are going by, and I am not writing anything because this thing is laid out in front of me. It's as if you get every brochure for a trip you are going to go on and you get the minutest details of every step along the way. Well, I really doubt you're going to then get in the car and go. You know, it's like, why bother if it's all laid out in front of you?

    Writing   Car   Doubt  
  • The high note is not the only thing.

    Music   Crafts   Notes  
  • Praise from an enemy smells of craft.

    Smell   Enemy   Crafts  
  • Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.

  • What I lack in style and craft, I can make up for in joy and enthusiasm. I like to be around people who are at ease so I like to think the 25-year-old would find me quite an easy-going late-middle-aged hippie.

    Hippie   Thinking   Years  
    "The Survivors: Robert Plant". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 7, 2011.
  • Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.

    Giving   Leader   Crafts  
    "Why Small Interactions Matter". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. August 25, 2011.
  • And what we can see if we look deep within is that the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Do not try to remake yourself into something you're not. Just try making the best of what God made. The sacred art and craft of nurturing our souls and the souls of those we love is Simple Abundance soulcraft. Begin today by turning on the Light.

    Art   Simple   Love Is  
  • 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.

    Source: www.awesome-body.club
  • We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.

    Causes   Meals   Actors  
  • ...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 (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.3, Anchor
  • Collaboration is a nice change of pace from the often solitary nature of the writer's craft.

    Source: www.sfsignal.com
  • I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

    Fans   Crafts   Film  
    "Filmmaker Fede Alvarez digs up scares with ‘Evil Dead’". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. April 4, 2013.
  • The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting.

    Artist   Class   Together  
  • I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

    Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.27, Melville House
  • America is capable at single moments of receiving the depth and the breadth of the homiletical vision of black America when a black preacher rises to his or her craft at the height of his or her ambition and the desire to tell America the truth.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

    Art   Crafts   Novel  
  • Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

    Art   Writing   Unique  
  • I'm giving up acting. . . . I'm 66 and there are a number of celebrations I've got to get down on paper, and acting doesn't allow me to do that. It was a hell of a drug, performance. It's a great thrill, especially for a storyteller. But it can go. Directing can go. Writing can't go. And in terms of what lies ahead, I want to have a burning focus - almost like smoke coming up from the paper as I write.

  • So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade other people; nor is it like a scientist testing a theory. This is a unique art form within the world of rational science. We are trying to craft a "poem of reason" that explains fully and clearly and satisfies the pickiest demands of logic, while at the same time giving us goosebumps.

    Art   Math   Unique  
  • The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.

    Jobs   Artist   Giving  
    "Hip-hop artist Talib Kweli". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 17, 2013.
  • People look at technology as sometimes an end to things, and it isn't an end in certain cases. In the movie business, the act of creating in the art form of movies, the craft of movies is completely technical, and that's all it is.

    "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.
  • In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righteous means, but whether he was successful in gaining power, in keeping it, and in governing; whether, in short, he was skilful at his particular craft or a bungler.

    Mean   Successful   Men  
    Frederick Scott Oliver (1931). “The Endless Adventure: An introductory essay on politcs and politicians. From the flight of James II. to the accession of George I. (1688-1714) Stanhope and Sunderland (1714-1721) Townshend and Walpole (1721-1727)”
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