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I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.

I was planning to remain an amateur for a while.

I love the idea of the amateur - that's what popular culture is all about. But what the Internet's doing is professionalizing everyone's amateuristic impulses.

There are so many things I want to do! Some are personal. Some are professional.

I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it's just amateur.

I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.