#craft

When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really took care of their actors. ↗

— James MacArthur

#ago #care #craft #developed #flourished

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#bugged #burglars #caught #clues #concrete

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#astounding #books #craft #craftsmanship #faulkner

I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts. ↗

— George Miller

#arts #because #crafts #fired #got

Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums. ↗

— Joe Morton

#approach #basically #camera #craft #different

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#any #awful thing #become #business #chance

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer. ↗

— Patti Smith

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We had to depend on other institutions to do research on our behalf. We had to use the information that already existed to craft the best practices to distribute throughout the country. And we had to do all of that in ten months. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#behalf #best #country #craft #depend

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#believe #best #craft #i #i believe

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#earthquakes #had #heard #how #i