Guilds Quotes

• As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Past, Thinking

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• We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners of ancient India have names for such guilds, or beings made up (as we are) of two or more species forming one organism. Most of nature is composed of groups of species working interdependently.

  Bill Mollison

  Lying, Names, Two

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• I went without health insurance until 'Roger & Me,' basically - from about age 20 till about age 35. With 'Roger & Me,' I joined the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and since then I've had excellent health care managed by the union.

  Michael Moore

  Age, Directors, Care

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• Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Writing, America, Should

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• The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

  Conrad Black

  Hands, Bars, Benches

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• People should realize that I shot a Coke commercial back in 1986. So, you know, I've been around a long time. I carry my Screen Actors Guild Card.

  Kato Kaelin

  Long, People, Cards

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Years, Actors, Screens

  "60 Seconds in Goot Heaven". www.indiewire.com. December 18, 2005.

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• Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with many, many, many, many people and vastly different careers.

  Timothy Olyphant

  Careers, People, Different

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• From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Actors, Film, Genes

  "60 Seconds in Goot Heaven". www.indiewire.com. December 18, 2005.

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• I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.

  Griffin Dunne

  Pay, Five, Dues

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

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• When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.

  Marla Maples

  New York, College, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  New York, Successful, Television Commercials

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• I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.

  Felicia Day

  Offering, Hollywood, Roles

  "Felicia Day Talks the New Season of Her Hit Web Series ‘The Guild’ and the Hazards of Being a ‘Girl Gamer’". Interview with Robert Echevarria, www.indiewire.com. October 2, 2012.

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• I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons.

  Tommy Shaw

  Wind, Stuck

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• Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.

  John Sayles

  Years, Acting, Actors

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• Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

  K.J. Parker

  Believe, Writing, Earth

  K. J. Parker (2009). “Devices And Desires: The Engineer Trilogy: Book One”, p.219, Hachette UK

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• There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified. In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California. Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president. I was a vice president of the Screen Actors Guild when he was its president. My duties consisted of attending meetings and voting. The only thing I remember is that Ronnie never had an original thought and that we had to tell him what to say. That's no way to run a union, let along a state or a country.

  James Garner

  Running, Country, California

  James Garner, Jon Winokur, Julie Andrews (2012). “The Garner Files: A Memoir”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• I am kind of like the guide, the leader of this discussion. It could be from me, it could be from other people, it could be a mixture. It's a real sort of guild. I lead it and direct it and inspire it.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Real, People, Leader

  Source: www.elle.com

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• For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. it demands no requirements for inclusion save an understanding of the wind, the compass, the rudder, and fair fellowship.

  Beryl Markham

  Wind, Law, Understanding

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• Ya called Fargo yet?” “No, I’ve been too busy trying to destroy the Guild and corrupt Simon’s soul. Being evil is a full-time job.

  Jana Oliver

  Jobs, Evil, Soul

  Jana Oliver (2011). “Soul Thief: A Demon Trappers Novel”, p.260, Macmillan

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• I've got a gig," Jim said. I sat up in my bed, wide-awake. A gig was good- I needed the money. "Half." "Third." "Half." "Thirty-five percent." Jim's voice hardened. "Half." The phone went silent as my former Guild partner mulled it over. "Okay, forty." I hung up.(...) The phone rang. I let it ring twice before I picked it up. "Fine." Jim's voice had a hint of a snarl in it. "Half.

  Ilona Andrews

  Voice, Phones, Half

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• If this is death, Guild Hunter,he thought to his mortal as angelfire scored through his bones and touched his heart, then I will see you on the other side.

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Sides, Hunters

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.316, Penguin

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• The only thing you can do to make me that angry is to lie with another man" ~ Raphael, Guild Hunter, Nalini Singh

  Nalini Singh

  Lying, Men, Hunters

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• I’ll spend my life training just for the moment I have my chance at you. I’ll wait until you think I’ve forgotten today. I’ll wait until you think it was just a dumb guild rat’s threat. After I’m a master, you’ll jump at shadows for a while. But after you jump a dozen times and I’m not there, you won’t jump just once, and that’s when I’ll be there. I don’t care if you kill me at the same time. I’ll trade my life for yours.

  Brent Weeks

  Thinking, Waiting, Dumb

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• Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.

  Janet Morris

  Jealousy, Discipline, Excellence

  Janet Morris (1986). “Beyond Sanctuary”, Ace Books

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