Apprenticeship Quotes

I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it." - in 1922

I`ve been working for many years and I think I`ve managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can`t give you a formula for that.

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

We`re like old people now playing music. I`m so glad we stuck it out because it`s a lot better. I used to feel kind of anxious. Now our apprenticeship is over.

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

I just want Minor League umpires to be respected. They tell us we`re apprentices, but we feel like kids. A nine-year apprenticeship? Usually apprentices make at least 50 percent of their masters. We`re not even making close to that if you look at the numbers.

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

If you`re young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.