Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ridley

There are any number of very hard working people in Hollywood who deserve recognition. Mostly its the artisans and crafts persons - the 'below the line' workers - whose only reward is to be pejoratively labeled 'below the line' workers. I say get them all on the next thing smoking to Vegas for an all expense paid weekend of whatever.

I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences or even just that they prioritize food - that's where we get this idea of being a foodie.

Ansel Elgort

When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences.

David Chang

Growing up, my dad owned a restaurant in Washington, DC, and food was something I was passionate about. But when I finally got into it, I felt like it was so late in the game; that's why I worked seven days a week at Craft and Mercer Kitchen. I wanted to see how far I could take it.

Lennie James

One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting. I hadn't done my apprenticeship as a writer. I did try to be a writer for hire but I'm not any good at it.

Lee Whitnum

I'm not handled. I'm not crafted by slick, high-priced consultants. I'm a real person, a genuine person, a struggling person in Connecticut.

Allen Ginsberg

First thought, best thought.

Jerry Seinfeld

I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn't love them.

Our strategy, as we have navigated these market conditions, has been to use locally crafted strategies in a measured and orderly fashion to keep inventory levels very low while keeping our home-building machine working.

W. S. Gilbert

My philosophy is to take back the word craft rather than get rid of it. I'm interested in design, art.

Matt Mullenweg

Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.

Matt Stajan

Kyle is a lot more crafty than we are, so he should go in the middle.

John Scalzi

I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean that to denigrate myself. I mean that in the sense of, when I write, the person that I keep in mind is my mother-in-law.

History teaches us that punitive measures, hastily crafted in reaction to short-term market fluctuations, will likely have unintended negative consequences.

Czeslaw Milosz

We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.

Donald Barthelme

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

Constantin Stanislavski

Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?

Amy Sedaris

I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it.

Amy Sedaris

A lot of crafters, they're shut-ins.

I get my ideas from everywhere -- preschools, Web sites and craft books.

T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

Aaron Carter

I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.

Julia Quinn

There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love the genre, it's going to show, and it's not going to be a good book.

It destroys the craft not to learn it

Hesiod

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

Eric Avery

I feel that Jane's is really a vibe and a time. It wasn't like we were the Beatles. We didn't have crafty pop songs where it sort of didn't matter who played them because they're just really great songs.

Eleanor Catton

I think that, in principle, a workshop is such a beautiful idea - an environment in which writers who are collectively apprenticed to the craft of writing can come together in order to collectively improve.

David is kind of a crafty kid. He read the pass.

Brian Greene

I just want to keep doing good work. I want to grow with the craft in whatever I do. The whole famous side of it doesn't thrill me anymore.

Phil Klay

It's not a problem to be surrounded by other writers if that's the craft that you're doing. I suppose if you get obsessed with the notion of being a writer more than the writing itself, that would be bad. But I live near really smart, thoughtful people who take writing very seriously, and I can meet them for breakfast and talk books.

Geddy Lee

It's very rare - and it does happen on occasion - where I'll take a piece of lyric and I'll just sit down and purposefully craft that melody around that lyric because I think the lyric is the wellspring for the song, without question.

Annette Bening

I love the craft of acting, I love learning, I love everything that comes with the new project; the whole process is totally intoxicating to me.

Alan Arkin

I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.