“Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.” WantIdeasBigsMightWantedDealsActingAttentionStagePaidNotionWork OutWhat You WantBig DealJockeys Author:Olivia Thirlby
“I went to Spago once, eight years ago. I had just closed a deal. I thought it would be fun to go to Spago and it wasn't. I got a bad table and nobody paid any attention to me.” YearsWould BeFunDealsAttentionYears AgoPaidTablesEight Author:Michael Tolkin
“My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers. So I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer.” StatesUnitedDealsNumbersUnited StatesSpecialHavensReturnTaxesNormalComputerPaidTax Returns Author:Bill Gates
“Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted principle of specialization, according to which some are paid to write about the horrors of the world and human responsibility and others to deal with those horrors and bear the human responsibility for them.” WorldFeelsWritingHumansDealsResponsibilityAcceptingPrinciplesPositionBearsHorrorEssentialsPaidAversionSpecialization Author:Vaclav Havel
“people only ever offer you a great deal of money for rubbish. The greater the number of noughts on the cheque, the greater the crapular content of the movie; the better the work, the less you're paid.” PeopleDealsNumbersGreaterOffersPaidMovieRubbishCheques Author:Glenda Jackson
“The gospel is saying that, what man cannot do in order to be accepted with God, this God Himself has done for us in the person of Jesus Christ. To be acceptable to God we must present to God a life of perfect and unceasing obedience to his will. The gospel declares that Jesus has done this for us. For God to be righteous he must deal with our sin. This also he has done for us in Jesus. The holy law of God was lived out perfectly for us by Christ, and its penalty was paid perfectly for us by Christ. The living and dying of Christ for us, and this alone is the basis of our acceptance with God” MenPersonsDoneLawOrderJesusChristSinPerfectDealsDyingAcceptanceHolyJesus ChristBasesPaidAcceptedObedienceAcceptableRighteousPenalties Author:Graeme Goldsworthy
“Paul Revere earned his living as a silversmith. But what do we remember him for? His volunteer work. All activism is volunteering in that it's done above and beyond earning a living and deals with what people really care passionately about. Remember, no one gets paid to rebel. All revolutions start with volunteers.” PeopleDoneHelpingCareRememberDealsRevolutionPaidActivismHelping OthersRebelVolunteerEarningVolunteerismAbove And BeyondEarning A LivingVolunteer Work Author:Susan J. Ellis
“We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.” DealsPaidClubsOwnersPrestige Author:Judy Holliday
“We don't have a whole lot of people living hand-to-mouth in the Writers Guild, we get paid really well, and a lot of the things we fought for, in my case, I can negotiate. I can negotiate higher DVD rates or anything I want, it's not going to be a minimum basic agreement. But I do think it was important to stand up to them. I do think that we got things in the deal that we wouldn't have gotten had we not stood up to them.” PeopleThinkingWantWellsI CanImportantWholeHandsDealsCasesHigherMouthsPaidRateAgreementMinimumStood UpDvdsGuilds Author:Edward Allen Bernero
“In Heaven, there are no debts - all have been paid, one way or another - but in Hell there's nothing but debts, and a great deal of payment is exacted, though you can't ever get all paid up. You have to pay, and pay, and keep on paying. So Hell is like an infernal maxed-out credit card that multiplies the charges endlessly.” WayHas BeensHeavenDealsPayHellPaidCreditDebtCardsOne WayPaymentCredit Card Book:Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth Source: Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
“Me and Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel and Dana Carvey wrote a script called 'Hans and Franz: The Girlyman Dilemma,' and it was going to be co-produced with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and he was going to co-star in it. We had a deal with Sony, we got paid to write it, and it was a musical, but it never got made because...I think Arnold kind of backed out at the last minute because he was getting cold feet because ;The Last Action Hero' had come out, where he was parodying himself. But it was a really funny script, and I wish it could've seen the light, because I think it would've done really well.” ThinkingWritingWellsKindMadeDoneLightActionLastsWishStarsDealsFeetMinutesColdHeroPaidMusicalScriptsDilemmaLast MinuteSchwarzeneggerSonyConanAction HeroesCold FeetConan O Brien Author:Kevin Nealon
“Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.” PeopleHas BeensDoneCareAbleJobsYoungTermDealsClassMiddleCollegeTrainingFairsSickPaidRaisesFocusedMiddle ClassPushingMinimumGood JobAffordableMinimum WageAffordable Care ActJob Training Author:Barack Obama
“Personally I have a great deal of fun doing it, which is an inspiration in itself really. It really allows me to daydream, as in "schooldream" which is daydreaming with ink and get paid for it which is something I don't say to schools when I go in and talk to them.” InspirationSchoolFunDealsPaidInkDaydreaming Author:Jasper Fforde
“If I'm a director and I read a script and I say yeah I really want to do this, I would never walk away because the deal wasn't very good - that I wasn't getting paid very much or that the chances that I would see anything on the back end were remote because of the financial waterfall and the way it's structured. I would never use that as a reason not to do something.” IfsWayWantEndsReasonUseChanceWalksDealsDirectorsPaidYeahVery GoodFinancialScriptsWaterfalls Author:Steven Soderbergh
“Overwhelming the majority of European citizens are unhappy with the social deal they get, yes; and that is why they are so angry with their governments. Because they want more, much more! They couldn't care less that their benefits, salaries and other privileges, have been, for decades and centuries 'subsidized' by the plunder of other parts of the planet; that they are paid for by blood.” WantHas BeensGovernmentCareSocialDealsBloodCenturyPlanetsCitizensBenefitsPaidAngryMajorityPrivilegeDecadesUnhappyOverwhelmingSalaryPlunder Author:Andre Vltchek
“I would say one thing people need to do - and his is how Roosevelt's New Deal began - let us go back to cities and states where we can, build emblematic progressive reforms, like the Fight for 15 minimum wage, paid sick leave, things that improve the conditions of people's lives and that drive them into a national message.” PeopleNeedsStatesFightingDealsCitiesOne ThingConditionsMessagesSickPaidReformProgressiveMinimumMinimum WageNew DealSick Leave Author:Katrina vanden Heuvel
“Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.” LittlesSometimesBitsDealsLittle BitPaid Author:Alice Mattison
“I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.” ThinkingWayTwoFightingLanguageTermDealsPaidClubsLabelsInventingLabeling Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact.” IfsWayWritingSometimesEnoughFactsSeemsSpeakAnswersDealsAttentionAudienceMy FamilyPaidMeetingsTerrorismRelevantThreatened Book:Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume
“A close, daily intimacy between two people has to be paid for: it requires a great deal of experience of life, logic, and warmth of heart on both sides to enjoy each other’s good qualities without being irritated by each other’s shortcomings and blaming each other for them.” PeopleHeartTwoEnjoySidesDealsQualityLogicPaidBlameIntimacyWarmthBoth SidesShortcomingsIrritatedGood QualityWarmth Of Heart Author:Ivan Goncharov
“Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it...I have written because it fulfilled me. ... I did it for the pure joy of the things. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.” IfsInspirationalMadeInspirationMotivationalJoyCan DoDealsFictionForeverWrittenPurePaperPaidFulfilledYou Can Do ItBuzzSingle WordDoughDoing What You LovePure JoyLoving What You Do Author:Stephen King
“The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don't go anywhere, but you still get paid.” StillsDealsFailingTelevisionPaidTownsGreat ThingsLos Angeles Author:Daniel Tosh
“Theres a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a mans change of life.” LittlesBookDealsAttentionWrittenPaidLife Changing Author:Frank Langella
“There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.” PeopleRealizingDifferencesDealsFootballCollegePaidAthletePlaying FootballProfessional Athlete Author:Robert Griffin III