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The Week: Best of the blogs - Amateur or Professional?
Years back, when I was a young writer at BMP, John Webster said: 'The difference between you and me is that you're a gifted amateur and I'm a professional.'
I asked him what that meant.
He said: 'At the end of the day, you'll come out of the office with something brilliant or nothing. I'll come out of the office with something brilliant, or something usable.'
When John said that, it was like a light going on in my head, I got what he meant. This isn't art, this is business. At its best it should be a beautiful and inspiring business. But it is a business.
You (can) go straight to the 55 million consumers in the streets and houses of the UK. Did what we did work for them? Did they repeat your ...
- Dr. John Webster Trial: 1850
- Reference information from: Great American Trials Christianson, Stephen January 1, 2002 700+ words
Dr. John Webster Trial: 1850 Defendant: Harvard Professor Dr. John Webster Crime Charged: Murder Chief Defense Lawyers...Death by hanging SIGNIFICANCE: Because Dr. John Webster had dismembered his victim's body and disposed...
- Webster's 'The Devil's Law-Case.' (John Webster)
- The Explicator Gunby, David June 22, 1996 700+ words
...19. 3. F. L. Lucas, ed., The Complete Works of John Webster, 4 vols. (London: Chatto, 1927). The Devil...David Carnegie, and Anthony Hammond, eds., The Works of John Webster (Cambridge: Cambridge UP). 4. Frances A...
- Reflections on John Webster Grant's influence on Catholic historiography in...
- Magazine article from: Historical Studies McGowan, Mark G. January 1, 2008 700+ words
...linguistic barriers between his work and the majority of Canadian...relationship between Grant's work and Canadian Catholic historiography...sometimes measured in odd ways. John Webster Grant's writings emerged from...energized significantly by the work of the World Council of Churches...
- Webster's 'The White Devil,' 4.2.170-71. (John Webster)
- The Explicator Carnegie, David September 22, 1993 700+ words
...Wellington, New Zealand NOTES 1. John Webster, The White Devil, The Complete Works of John Webster, ed. F. L. Lucas, vol. 1 (1927...2. Lucas 242-43, The Complete Works of John Webster, n. 1 above. 3. The White Devil...
- John Webster, James Shirley, and the Melbourne manuscript.(essay)(Critical...
- Magazine article from: Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England Jackson, MacD. P. January 1, 2006 700+ words
...Auctions, in which he argued for John Webster's authorship within the period...be included, as a "possible" work, in the Cambridge Webster. Antony Hammond died before The Works of John Webster could be completed, and I took...
- COMMENT & ANALYSIS: John Webster; OBITUARY.(Features)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) January 16, 2006 700+ words
...certain brand of potato mix instead. So it was in 1974 that John Webster, supreme advertising man, introduced us to the Smash Martians...than strident promotion, would enhance his commercials. John Webster, advertising executive' born December 17 1934, died January...
- Webster's 'The White Devil.'.(John Webster's play)
- The Explicator Cervo, Nathan A. January 1, 1999 700+ words
...NATHAN A. CERVO, Franklin Pierce College NOTES 1. John Webster, The White Devil, ed. Christina Luckyi, The New Mermaids...amp; Black, 1996). The reference is to R. W. Dent, John Webster's Borrowing (Berkeley: U of California P, 1960). 2...
- John Webster to take over as CEO of Swift.
- Magazine article from: Mortgage Strategy January 30, 2006 700+ words
By Natalie Martin The Swift Group last week revealed that John Webster has been appointed as its new chief executive officer. Webster, previously managing director at Preferred, will take up the...
