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You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.

Quote by Mick Jagger about character

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about love, writers, instinct, good, good luck

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers

You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.

Quote by Paula Abdul about need, mind

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

Quote by Billy Joel about common sense, sense, music, art, magic

Research supports a specific theory depending on the amount of funds dedicated to it.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about research

Walking on water and developing software to specification are easy as long as both are frozen.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, water

The more specific a title is, the less you will be able to apply it later.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about education

The more the student hates a specific piece, the more likely he will have to play it.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about opinion, beauty

For one country is different from another, its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.

Quote by Paracelsus about country, earth

This means that each country, in addition to the general properties common to the whole world, also has its own specific properties.

Quote by Paracelsus about country, common sense, world

Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible.

Quote by Evan Parker about work

I have never been interested in specific roles.

Quote by Estelle Parsons

Thus, the purposeful relationship of phenomena is based on the specificity of the stimuli, that correspond to similarly specific reactions.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about friendship

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

Quote by Sean Penn about actors

No matter how many ethnic groups are blended in the pot of a geographical place, in time a specific human type of that place emerges. The "genius loci" is stronger than race.

Quote by Vasile Andru about opinion, genius, human imperfections, time

I could be, almost without effort, litte boy, woman or beetle. And it is much more comforting to be something very specific. Firefighter, for example. You know exactly what to do.

Quote by Sorin Vidan about existence, example, woman