It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.
As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
My dad taught me how to play. He was a great amateur player in Curacao.
Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.
I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.
I'm not putting down anyone that does look at their work in that way, but for me I am a hardcore amateur.
Never refer to your wedding night as the original amateur hour.
I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or any shots. It means a lot. I think hopefully it will mean a lot to New Zealand because I'm the next winner of the U. S. Amateur after Danny Lee.
I hate to lose and even as an amateur I won every tournament I was in.
Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and mistakes become really obvious.
Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.
Every professional was once an amateur.
I think of myself as an amateur filmmaker, not a professional, in the sense that "amateur" means love of something, for the form.
Although I'm a comedian, I'm also an amateur survivalist.
That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way.
I try very hard to tell stories and not lecture. I try to approach things as an amateur and not an expert, so that when I'm doing something, I'm starting out in a place a lot like where my readers start out - which is to say, naïve.
The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence because she needs to avoid, at all costs, the voice inside her head that would point her toward her calling and her destiny. So she seeks distraction. The amateur prizes shallowness and shuns depth. The culture of Twitter and Facebook is paradise for the amateur.
I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year.
I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.
I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
