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Quotes About Journeyman

The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.
~ Leland Stanford
I'm the journeyman actor that you saw in one scene here, two scenes there. I've been eking out a living doing theater - Broadway, Off Broadway - film supporting roles, that I'm just excited to be a part of the conversation.
~ Viola Davis
When you realize there are geniuses out there and you'd be a journeyman... that's not good enough. I'd rather be the person helping those who are one in a billion get their vision out.
~ Gale Anne Hurd
I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.
~ William Sanderson
Must I not serve a long apprenticehoodTo foreign passages, and in the end,Having my freedom, boast of nothing elseBut that I was a journeyman to grief?
~ William Shakespeare
I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.
~ Nick Offerman
I prefer the word 'journeyman' to 'journalist' because I think that certainly, when you hear a story, you want to hear certain facts. But I also think what makes a story interesting is the points of view expressed therein.
~ Jason Silva
The two centre-backs, Rob Huth and Wes Morgan, are in many ways journeyman pros, but they have that wonderful attitude and never-say-die spirit that has culminated in them being top of the league.
~ Gary Lineker
I had the added assurance of knowing I was buffered against catching the disease that I nursed, so sometimes Macabir's praise of my courage on this count embarrassed me. Then a journeyman healer walked boldly into the camp bearing sufficient serum to inoculate everyone.
~ Anne McCaffrey
I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
~ Sam Rockwell
Finally, William would wait no longer. He was baptized on October 5 in the Nene River at Northampton by John Ryland. Ryland and his father had become spiritual advisors to William too. "They too are Baptists," noted William of the two who pastored the College Lane church in Northampton. William Carey was now 22, a journeyman shoemaker with an ashen, fever-sickened face and bald head. He had little energy for working.
~ Sam Wellman
Trout is no journeyman. He's a former world champion, someone who has a name and he comes to fight.
~ Jermell Charlo
Timeless' is like the little sister, but 'Journeyman' is the big brother - it's what I'll take to the grave.
~ Goldie
In this business, it's important: if you consider yourself a journeyman actor like I do, you need to stay topical. So I'm always looking for projects that are challenging, that put me in a light that's different from anything I've ever done before.
~ Ian Ziering
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas (Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999).
~ Matt Zandstra
Screenwriting is still a challenge for me. It's more technical than creative. You have to be a very good journeyman plumber and put the proper parts together. Then, if you can still inject a little bit of something worthwhile, you have done as much as can be expected.
~ Leigh Brackett
Two actors that I had particularly fantastic experiences with include Chris Doubek, a notable indie journeyman who also happened to live in the trailer behind my house, and Violett Beane.
~ Keith Maitland
I've been kind of a journeyman. My five-year stint at TNA. My short cup of coffee in WWE. The last eight-and-a-half years in Japan. I wanted to prove to the world that I absolutely belong as a singles competiton.
~ Lance Archer
I consider myself a journeyman actor, and I pride myself and look forward to keeping my career choices as diverse as possible because it challenges me as an actor.
~ Wendell Pierce
If I had been a bricklayer I'd still have been a journeyman.
~ Fred L. Turner
'Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off that movie on what filmmaking is and isn't than everything else combined. A lot of lessons, and it will impact me for the rest of my career.
~ David Ayer
I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.
~ William Sanderson
I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.
~ Paul Muni