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"One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else."
"At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument."
"Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft."
"As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life."
"Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft"
"The moment we think we're masters of our crafts is the moment we've lost the hunger to become masters of our crafts."
"I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it probably really works for somebody. It's maybe somebody's favorite tune, and it's really hard to come down on that, even if I feel a little embarrassed for it. Because some songs are written like a commercial, and that can be a little strange."
"[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren't right to do that - I don't think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons - to create empathy."
"Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp."
"No time for poetry but exactly what is."
"I would go to the craft services table and have Oreos or whatever, and a grown woman would come up to me and look at what I was eating and sigh and go, "I remember the days when I could eat like that." And I never knew what to say that, because I was 9."
"Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio."
"He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop."
"Craft against craft makes no living."
"That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy."
"Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics."
"As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising on the tenor sax, there would not have been the evolution of the craft by John Coltrane."
"What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash."
"On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure."
"It's strange, 'cause a play, you start at the beginning and you go all the way through to the end. So it's naturally very well rehearsed and you get a rhythm and a flow. In film, you can shoot the ending before the beginning. It's very odd. And it's like a craft you have to learn."
