America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of ...an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Directors like Satyajit Ray, Rossellini, Bresson, Buñuel, Forman, Scorsese, and Spike Lee have used non-professional actors preci...sely in order that the people we see on the screen may be scarcely more explained than reality itself. Professionals, except fo the greatest, usually play not just the necessary role, but an explanation of the role.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confide...ntiality protects much that is not in fact secret, personal secrets lie at its core. The innermost, the vulnerable, often the shameful: these aspects of self-disclosure help explain why one name for professional confidentiality has been "the professional secret." Such secrecy is sometimes mistakenly confused with privacy; yet it can concern many matters in no way private, but that someone wishes to keep from the knowledge of third parties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and professional truth-tellers. The w...orld is an attempt to make the best of Heaven and Hell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my dif...ferent business, professional and political interests.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of mainta...ining the professional standing of the critic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The beaux and the babies, the servant troubles, and the social aspirations of the other girls seemed to me superficial. My work di...d not. I was professional. I could earn my own money, or I could be fired if I were inefficient. It was something to get your teeth into. It was living.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the quest...ions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professio...nal readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I- Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »