William Goldman
Screenwriter, Novelist
"Nobody knows anything."
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Crafts
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Alfred Bertram Guthrie
Author
"Good enough is never good enough."
Will Smith
Actor, Producer, Rapper
"Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"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."
Glenn Gould
Pianist
"There is a craft and a power in listening."
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"It's not hard to make a space that looks good by itself. The trick is to craft a room that's even more attractive when it's occupied. That's when it becomes magical."
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"First thought, best thought."
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"You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft."
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"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."
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"He who knows best knows how little he knows."
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"Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies."
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"Whatever your craft is, be a master of it. Being half assed at something, people will eventually see through."
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"If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things."
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"Always make room for the unexpected in yourself."
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"Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it."
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"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."
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"Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn't structured around such things, except in beer commercials."
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"That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it."
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"A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments."
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"We of the craft are all crazy."
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"Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will"
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"[I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference."
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"Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft."
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"To make your unknown known - that's the important thing."
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"I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances."
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