Crafts Quotes - Page 8

• Sure there's a difference with puppet-craft - who cares? I don't care about the puppet-craft, I care about what works. Who cares about the puppet and craft? It's not about that. It's about compelling an audience, and touching an audience in some way.

  Frank Oz

  Differences, Touching, Who Cares

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

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• Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity. Everyone, we're assured, is a poet. Writing poetry is good for us. It expresses our inmost feelings, which is wholesome. Reading other people's poems is pointless since those aren't our own inmost feelings.

  Barbara Holland

  Art, Reading, Writing

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.

  Marya Mannes

  Dream, Real, Moving

  Marya Mannes (1961). “The New York I Know”

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• I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

  Joan Larkin

  Writing, Fiction, Stories

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• Ever since I was little, I’ve loved making hand-made cards and presents and arts & crafts for people.

  Sarah Kay

  Art, Hands, People

  Interview with Jennifer Messing, journalwomenwriters.wordpress.com. August 5, 2014.

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• Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous - the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should not be underestimated. It works, often in ways that are unexpected and difficult to control.

  Starhawk

  Wise, Adventure, Magic

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Some crafts have been practiced for centuries. These crafts were created using skills passed from generation to generation, and were motivated by necessity such as baskets and pottery, or artistic expression, such as more baskets and more pottery. Today, there is a much more leisurely attitude toward crafting, and virtually anyone without a job and access to pipe cleaners can join the elite society of crafters.

  Amy Sedaris

  Jobs, Attitude, Skills

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• Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for approval ... Learn to evaluate your own work with a dispassionate eye ... the lessons you acquire will be all the more valuable because you've mastered your craft from within.

  Sue Grafton

  Writing, Eye, Self

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• I always get a little bit pissed off when stand-up comedy is not recognised as being as good a craft as being an actor. We give Oscars to people and it's like, 'Aw, this person is the greatest person on earth', but being an actor is pretty easy in comparison to stand-up comedy. It's no surprise that several stand-up comics have gone on to become great actors. I don't know any great actors that have gone on to become great stand-up comics.

  Jim Jefferies

  Giving, People, Gone

  Source: www.gigglebeats.co.uk

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• Lizzie Harris's debut collection, Stop Wanting, crafts images and lines of such arresting splendor that I am very often driven to joy at the feats of beauty and healing that language is capable of bringing into being.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Healing, Joy, Splendor

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• I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or sixty-one. They should write other novels first, to learn their craft; they shouldn't cut their teeth on the valuable material of childhood because they'll never have better material, ever, to work with.

  Laura Z. Hobson

  Writing, Cutting, Childhood

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• Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.

  Thomas Lennon

  Book, Writing, Want

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Artists need not meet any standards to practice their craft... Virtually every other occupation requires some sort of license, union membership or something that says you are qualified.

  Mike Svob

  Artist, Practice, Occupation

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• The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.

  William Bolitho

  Hands, Imagination, Police

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• The right way to deal with healthcare reform is not to have a one-size-fits-all plan that's imposed on all the states, but recognizing the differences between different states' populations, states should be able to craft their own plans to get all their citizens insured, and to make sure that preexisting conditions are covered.

  Mitt Romney

  Healthcare Reform, Differences, Size

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Ever since I was little, I’ve loved making hand-made cards and presents and arts & crafts for people. The book gives me a similar experience. I love being able to hold this object in my hands and say, “This is mine. I made this. It is a gift for you.” I love that feeling. Especially since this particular object contains ten years worth of my poems.

  Sarah Kay

  Art, Book, Love Is

  Interview with Jennifer Messing, journalwomenwriters.wordpress.com. August 5, 2014.

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• This is some fellow,
  Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect
  A saucy roughness and constrains the garb
  Quite from his nature: he can't flatter, he!
  An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth!
  And they will take it so; if not he's plain.
  These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness
  Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends,
  Than twenty silly, ducking observants,
  That stretch their duty nicely.

  William Shakespeare

  Silly, Mind, Knaves

  William Shakespeare (1866). “A Treasury of Thought from Shakespeare: The Choice Sayings of His Principal Characters, Analytically and Alphabetically Arranged”, p.38

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• Praise from an enemy smells of craft.

  John Milton

  Smell, Enemy, Praise

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• I think theres escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If its done right, you can craft an incredible film. There have been superhero films that I think are brilliant pieces of art.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Art, Taken, Thinking

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• The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Rocks, Order, Rock And Roll

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• Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.

  Phyllis A. Whitney

  Perseverance, Book, Writing

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• I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.

  Robert Glasper

  Style, Jazz, Married

  "Listening To Rap With Robert Glasper". Interview with Patrick Jarenwattananon, www.npr.org. August 26, 2010.

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• I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.

  Brooke Shields

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Chad Michael Ward is a master of the storytelling craft. His imagery, both still and moving, reaches deep into the darkest corners of the mind, combining the macabre and the sensuous Revealing humanity's secret daydream atrocities. CMW taps into our most excitable of emotions with a blend of fear and human sexuality. Like an erotic car accident we can not look away from.

  Dave Navarro

  Moving, Car, Erotic

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• Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

  Ralph Ellison

  Serious, Conflict, Pursuit

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