"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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"We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make sacrifices that come along with making that decision."
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"Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing."
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"Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, "What do you suppose the old fox meant by that?"
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"The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life."
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"I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding."
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"Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled."
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"There is no method but to be very intelligent."
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"It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft."
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"There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness."
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"I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft."
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"It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame."
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"You must render: never report."
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"The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness."
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"There is no better way to earn money than to do the things that you love to do. Money can flow into your experience through endless avenues. It is not the choice of the craft that limits the money that flows - but only your attitude toward money."
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"[Saniyya Sidney] was very serious about her work and her craft, and she wanted to be good, and she wanted to work on it. So I said, "Ok." It was as simple as that. She was just right. She just has it."
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