Pete Hamill

In the '70s, the newspaper guild managed to get people paid what they were worth, but the reporters suddenly became middle class. It's much more respectable, more uptight, and everyone speaks in guarded tones. And the writing isn't as good. We always had guys who were failed poets and failed novelists who did it to eat.

American Journalist

Dominique Crenn

I'm talking to a lot of my industry to maybe try to create a guild and coalition where people, when they retire, would get a pension. We pay taxes through the years, we pay for unemployment, but we don't have a pension.

French Chef

Gabrielle Carteris

Relationships with sister guilds are growing stronger and stronger. It's important that all of us are working together - all the unions and the employers. It behooves us to come together.

American Actress

Conrad Black

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.

British Businessman

Jayne Anne Phillips

I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.

American Novelist

Coco Martin

It's important that I know what I'm doing before I assume responsibility over something as significant as the actors' guild.

Filipino Actor

John Ortberg

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

American Clergyman

Griffin Dunne

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

American Actor

Kay Cannon

I feel like the guilds are, just to be frank, people I pay money to.

American Writer

Tyra Banks

I would love for models to be protected by a guild.

American Model

Focuses on shared craftsmanship or professional interests, rather than personal matters.

Professional Community

Members usually unite because of a specific type of work or art.

Specific Interests

Guilds often provide opportunities to learn and improve skills within the group's focus.

Skill Development

Members join to pursue goals that benefit everyone in the guild.

Common Purpose

Provides a platform for members to support each other and work together.

Mutual Support

Today, often used for groups in video games or virtual communities.

Modern Use

In the past, guilds played a major role in town economies and politics.

Historical Importance

Medieval guilds could set standards and prices for the goods they produced.

Regulatory Power

Joining a medieval guild often required proving one's skills and sometimes lineage.

Exclusive Membership

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 to an hour and a half per day in the game while more dedicated players may play over 25 hours a week time spent in the game is closely related to a player's immersion in the wild community player one groups called guild which take part in large-scale events of the team have a large influence on how often

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 national geographic magazine in that job you don't stay bored for long and as a voice it was my friend al giddins who was a filmmaker and he said hey guild i'm mounting an expedition to dive under the isis at north pole would you like to come oh my goodness of course i'd like

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 Originally an elite stoneworkers’ guild in the late Middle Ages, the Freemasons had gone from passing down the craft of masonry to more generally promoting ideals of knowledge and reason. Over time, they had grown into a semi-secret, exclusive order

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 pick up one parent because now it's become socially not acceptable not to show up to support your children that the Manchester craftsmen's guild because people think you're bad parent and there is no statistical difference between the

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 shifted control of ballet from local guilds to the royal court. As director, he appointed his personal ballet master and frequent performance partner Pierre Beauchamp, who codified the five main positions of the body still used today.

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 island and I was studying a particular lemur and then this linger ups and disappears turns out that this lemur had been eaten by this predator I'd never heard of before the fusa in other parts of the world we have whole guilds of

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 curiosity by the age of fourteen he had enrolled as a goldsmith in the silk guild Lata della seta where he made gold and silver thread to be woven into tapestries sold throughout the world

The building of...

 a handful of us we had a guild and a club and we created a nucleus of a group of uh chainsaw carver dedicated to making the art form more well-known and respected