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I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years. -- Harrison Ford
My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him. -- John Henry Carver
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does. -- Abbas Kiarostami
I learned construction and carpentry from my father at a young age, so I felt very comfortable and I felt very satisfied when I worked in that field. -- Michael Cudlitz
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry. -- William Golding
The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project. -- John Ratzenberger
And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican. -- Alma Guillermoprieto
I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous. -- Patrick Duffy
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest. -- Arthur Guiterman
Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly. -- Anatole France
Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder? -- Karl Pilkington
...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments. -- William Sargant
I have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening. -- Scott Cohen
I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry. -- Ade Edmondson
Speak, what trade art thou? Why, sir, a carpenter. Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What does thou with thy best apparel on? -- William Shakespeare
My passion is interior decorating. My goal for the next years is to get into carpentry, because I really want to learn how to make my own furniture. -- Anne Hathaway
At its most basic we are discussing a learned skill (writing), but do we not agree that sometimes the most basic skills can create things far beyond our expectations? We are talking about tools and carpentry, about words and style... but as we move along, you'd do well to remember that we are also talking about magic. -- Stephen King
I worked in a steel mill, I worked in a foundry, I worked in a paper mill, I worked in a chemical refinery, construction, I did all that. It was great work, it was good. I learned welding, mechanic, carpentry, but it saved me from going back to prison because that's helpful. It's really sad because those jobs are gone. -- Luis J. Rodriguez
I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn't translate through sports, or music, dancing, carpentry, plumbing. I was the bookish kid, more at home in the pages of a fantasy than in the room in the town on the planet. -- Steve Rasnic Tem
There's a very famous Miyamoto Musashi quote. "Once you understand the way broadly, you can see it in all things." The idea is once you understand what excellence is all about, whether it's in painting, or carpentry or martial arts, that you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline. I think that all the different things that I do enhance all the other things that I do. -- Joe Rogan
The way I grew up, everyone knew how to cook, sew... carpentry. -- Shea Hembrey
I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry. -- David Lynch
I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry. -- Ade Edmondson
I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class. -- Maurice Allais
A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire. -- Pat Conroy
My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother designed a cabin, a log cabin, like a - it was like a Swiss chalet. I was twelve years old, and my father and I built it on a rocky point peninsula out into Lake Superior. -- John Lautner
Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop. -- Eliza Lynn Linton
The longer you work in this business [movie], the more you start to be able to see the carpentry. You can see where things are going, and it's harder to surprise you, as a reader -- David Benioff

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