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I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.
Janice Dickinson / Model
Ballet
Crafts
Grew
Honing
Study
Craft
Studying
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There is nothing like a 'born actor.' It's all about honing the skills.
Dulquer Salmaan /
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As a guitar player, you never stop learning, never stop honing your skills.
John Petrucci / Guitarist
Guitar Player
Honing
Skills
Never Stop
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For me, recording was a lot about honing my guitar skills and honing my singing.
Ben Howard / Singer-Songwriter
Honing
Guitar Me Singing
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I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.
Kathy Bates / Actress
Crafts
Honing
Life Changing
Recognition
Years
Craft
Sudden
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To me, getting notes, honing the part, and refining the role is the real fun of the play.
Swoosie Kurtz / Film Actress
Fun
Honing
Notes
Play
Real
Refining
Me Fun Real
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For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye.
Herb Ritts / Photographer
Eye
Honing
Keys
Thinking
Good Me Important
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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I think the only way you can become a writer is through honing your voice, creating your own voice.
Megan Mccafferty / Author
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I had come to New York seeking my fortune after a few years of honing my craft as a stand-up on the road.
Orson Bean / Film Actor
Fortune
Honing
Seeking
Craft
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
Dan Deacon / Composer
Energy
Honing
My Time
Needs
Unattainable
Devote
Energies
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It takes locking in on the task at hand and honing in on what you need to do in order to be successful in the NBA postseason.
Scottie Pippen / Basketball Player
Honing
Nba
Locking
Task
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What adolescence is about is by trial and error, honing a frontal cortex that is going to be more optimal by the time you're 25.
Robert Sapolsky /
Adolescence
Honing
Optimal
Trial And Error
By The Time
Error
Trial
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I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else.
Elizabeth Berg / Writer
Honing
Nonfiction
Prepare
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The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.
George Steiner / Literary Critic
Configuration
Honing
Impact
Journalistic
Maximum
Media
Vision
Event
Sharpens
Uniform
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I've become so much more comfortable divulging things I've never talked about before, honing in on certain relationships that everyone can relate to.
Machine Gun Kelly / Rapper
Honing
Talked
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Before acting offers came by, I dabbled in theatre under the aegis of the late thespian Dinesh Thakur. He was instrumental in honing my acting skills.
Arfi Lamba /
Honing
Offers
Instrumental
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In the ring, you're constantly working out and honing your craft, and you're doing the same thing with acting, too - taking classes and working with vocal coaches.
Eva Marie /
Coaches
Honing
Vocal
Classes
Craft
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I left home when I was 16 years old, and I've been living all around the world honing my craft. I lived in L.A. for eight years, then Stockholm, London, and New York.
Kerli /
New York
Eight
Honing
London
Stockholm
Craft
York
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When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.
Adam Mansbach /
Parenting
Critical
Developing
Disapproval
Honing
Parent
Your Right Own
Figuring
Sensibilities
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Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in vogue when he was honing his craft at Rolling Stone back in the day.
Thomas Frank / Journalist
Flower
Honing
Journalism
Political
Rolling
Style
Craft
Joe
Rolling Stone
Sharp
Stone
Traces
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I loved planning 'The Tyra Show' more than actually having to do it. I loved coming up with show ideas, honing each program and crafting it. I'm more excited being in a meeting than being on TV.
Tyra Banks / Television Personality
Honing
Ideas
Planning
Program
Tvs
Crafting
Meeting
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Writing film scripts is the hardest thing in the world. A script has to go to five or six drafts, and you need the feedback of other people and to keep coming back with a fresh eye, honing it down.
Gurinder Chadha / Film Director
Feedback
Hardest Thing
Honing
Scripts
World Keep People
World People Back
Drafts
The Hardest Thing
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It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate them and then writing over those, and I started with local artists in Boston, writing records for them.
Clinton Sparks /
Boston
Honing
Manipulate
Skills
Basement
Local
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I look at sports entertainment/professional wrestling, whichever you want to call it, I look at it as never done. You're never done learning or getting better or listening, and never done honing your skill.
Aleister Black /
Honing
Getting Better
Skill
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I prefer career artists that have spent time honing their craft, as opposed to, 'I won a karaoke contest on a reality show and now I have a record.' That's such a drag. The music that comes out of it is so poor.
Conor Oberst / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Careers
Drag
Honing
Reality
Prefer
Contest
Craft
Reality Show
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Some bands today have the experience of really working together and honing their craft. And other bands are very much like, 'I just got a guitar for Christmas, let's start a band.' And you can hear the difference.
Robbie Robertson / Singer-Songwriter
Christmas
Honing
Working Together
Craft
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If someone thinks, 'I'll spend the off season working on my fitness and I'll come back a better cricketer,' I don't think that's enough. You need to spend a lot of time working on your skills and honing your skills.
Rahul Dravid / Cricketer
Fitness
Honing
Needs
Skills
Thinking
Time Enough Your
Season
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I always think of myself as a comedy feeder type person, and that feeder lets themselves get out of your comfort zone as opposed to straight stand up; that feels like honing one skill, like honing one point of view.
Bo Burnham / Comedian
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Honing
Point Of View
Zone
Myself Always Your
Lets
Opposed
Skill
Stand Up
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For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice.
Giovanni Ribisi / Actor
Acting
Aesthetic
Artist
Crafts
Honing
Injustice
Myself Yourself Me
Craft
Myself Me Yourself
Otherwise
Picasso
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When you're an independent wrestler, committing a lot of time and effort into honing your craft as much as possible in as many different places as possible will catch the WWE's interest as far as the independent level goes.
Adam Cole /
Honing
Wrestler
Wwe
Catch
Committing
Craft
Different Places
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For good or ill, communism transformed the globe, but how many of us realise the crucial role played by a Manchester public library - Chethams, the oldest library in the English-speaking world - in the honing of that ideology?
Michael Portillo / Journalist
Communism
Crucial
English Speaking
Honing
Ideology
Ill
Manchester
Public Library
Transformed
Oldest
Realise
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It's all about learning your craft and honing it in and really paying attention to people who are doing it and what their advice is. It's like anything: it takes years and years and years. A lot of it comes down to work ethic.
Diego Klattenhoff / Actor
Advice
Honing
Work Ethic
Work Learning Your
Craft
Ethic
Paying
Years And Years
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I feel like my experience on 'Community' was that I saw just how important that first year is for a series. That is where you work all the pieces out, and that means honing the characters' voices, setting that tone, finding your angle.
Jim Rash / Actor
Angle
Honing
Setting
Tone
Voices
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When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it.
Jim Mckay /
Doubt
Honing
No Doubt
Lots
Craft
Foremost
Work Art People
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Actors in general have become very spoiled in the roles they choose these days. When I first started in this profession - about a hundred years ago in the last century - it was all about taking risks, it was about doing the job and honing the craft.
Brian Cox / Physicist
Honing
Hundred
Profession
Spoiled
Taking Risks
Craft
Hundred Years
Last Century
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Obviously, I did not start my Test career too well. With the bat, I was probably not quite ready to play at that stage. I was happy to go back to first-class system and learn my game a bit more, honing my skills, particularly my defence and patience.
Steve Smith /
Defence
Honing
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I run the material, always with two people, sometimes three. We all see things so differently, so to get a couple of people's perspectives on what I'm doing and the material itself is insanely helpful for honing in on what to take into the audition room.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Honing
Always People Doing
Audition
People Sometimes Doing
Perspectives
Two People
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I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is never perfectible - it's always new, and it's always different. It's always a work in progress.
Jake Busey / Actor
Auditions
Honing
Perfect
Progress
Pursuit
Trying
Work Always Progress
Craft
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I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.
Herb Ritts / Photographer
Black And White
Contact
Honing
Labs
Luxury
Making Up
Selective
Sheets
Afford
Edit
Generally
Lab
Printers
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Edinburgh is a world city, visited throughout the year for its beauty and history, but in August, it is the City of Hope. There is something very exciting and romantic about performers of all shapes and sizes, honing their stuff for the biggest arts festival in the world.
Dominic Holland /
August
Edinburgh
Honing
Performers
Shapes
Festival
Sizes
Visited
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It's still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day.
Benjamin Percy / Writer
Doors
Honing
Letters
Pages
Rejection
Craft
Incredibly
Published
Sent
Thousands
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My old man, he's done it very differently from me. He had years of honing his craft and years of doing all that stuff before he even had to worry about 'Game of Thrones.' So he's absolutely established himself as an actor without the fear of having to have a personality as well.
Frank Dillane /
Honing
Old Man
Established
Craft
Game Of Thrones
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I guess to long story short it, I was really just working day jobs when I moved to New York and trying to pay the bills, working in restaurants and as a receptionist, and at one of those reception jobs, I just got so bored, I started a blog, honing my writing skills a little bit.
Randy Rainbow /
Bills
Bored
Honing
Long Story
Reception
Restaurants
Long Day New
Blog
Working Day
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Why would anyone want to be famous, certainly not me. My only goal in an acting career is to be able to work full time as an actor, filmmaker. When I get to that level, which I will, in this business where I can spend one hundred percent of my time honing my craft, then I will be complete.
Tim Holmes /
Famous
Able
Acting
Filmmaker
Honing
Hundred
My Time
Percent
Time Work Business
Acting Career
Actor
Anyone
Career
Certainly
Complete
Full
Craft
Work Time Business
Spend
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Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.
Bryan Adams / Singer-Songwriter
Aim
Clever
Distraction
Exceptional
Fantastic
Honing
Media
People
Social
Social Media
Tweet
Ultimate
Writer
Both
Craft
Giant
However
Lyric
Songwriter
Spent
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I hope that 'Gambit' doesn't take ten years, but it takes a little honing to get that tone and that voice exactly right. The character has such a specific voice in the comic, in the same way that Deadpool has a specific voice in the comic, that we want to make sure that we capture that voice on the page.
Simon Kinberg / Screenwriter
Capture
Honing
Tone
Ten Years
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Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
Daniel Bryan / Professional Wrestler
Honing
Pursuit
Wrestlers
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I've found a lot of the thinking in America is that a lot of people become actors to become famous. At least from my experience, I have a dozen or so British friends who are actors, and if you look at their body of work, and they'll go do theatre, and they'll go do this and this. They work, and they're always honing and trying to be better.
Nolan North / Actor
Dozen
Honing
Theatre
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I went on a road trip and ended up in Portland, Oregon, and from there, I did non-stop theater. I had just graduated, and I had all these ideas about what good acting was, but I hadn't put any of it into action. I spent five years honing my acting chops. And then I had this epiphany one day that I need to go to L.A.; I need to be on a sitcom.
Michaela Watkins / Actress
Epiphany
Good Acting
Honing
Non Stop
Oregon
Portland
Sitcom
Chops
Graduated
Trip
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