Apprenticeship Quotes

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.

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.

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.

You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.

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.

Somewhere along the line you've got to do your apprenticeship. But I'd want half a chance of being successful at it.

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the nuns in the kitchen and thus discovered my passion for cooking. I began to cultivate my skills and aspirations at the age of 15, when I embarked on my first 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.

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.

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

If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don't realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It's not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful - it wasn't.

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

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.