“For years, I'd say yes to almost everything, trying to be nice and generous. Feeling obliged to be of service to the world. Maybe also a fear of being forgotten if I don't. But I paid the ultimate price in doing that, because for all those years, I got almost no work done! Some famous authors have written about this: that if they said yes to every request, then they'd never have time to write another book again.” IfsWorldWritingTryingYearsSaidBookDoneFeelingsNiceWrittenUltimatePaidForgottenGenerousBeing NiceThey SaidObligedRequestWork Done Author:Derek Sivers
“Everybody who comes from the gangster life - they want what that man in the suburbs wants. Nice family. Nice house. Nice cars. Bills paid. Kids in school. Food on the table. Nothing more.” MenWantKidsSchoolHouseNiceCarPaidTablesBillsSuburbsGangstersNice HouseNice CarsNice Family Author:Ice Cube
“Throughout much of history, women writers have capitulated to male standards, and have paid too much heed to what Virginia Woolf calls "the angel in the house." She is that little ghost who sits on one's shoulder while one writes and whispers, "Be nice, don't say anything that will embarrass the family, don't say anything your man will disapprove of ..." [ellipsis in original] The "angel in the house" castrates one's creativity because it deprives one of essential honesty, and many women writers have yet to win the freedom to be honest with themselves.” MenWritingLittlesHouseWinningCreativityToo MuchNiceHonestHonestyEssentialsStandardsAngelPaidOriginalsMalesGhostShouldersBeing HonestBeing NiceSay AnythingVirginiaHeedWoolf Author:Erica Jong
“If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. It's a fascinating business anyway-it's very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling material, it's like buying a piece of furniture that's really good.” IfsInterestPayPiecesNiceMaterialsPaidBuyingFascinatingFurnitureThrillingVery Nice Author:Katharine Hepburn
“Comedy is the drug, when they laugh it's like I'm a jazz musician and they hear it, and they get it. It's power to take the crowd wherever I want them to go. I love it when they laugh, especially when they relate through laughter. It's a beautiful thing. It also means I'm going to get paid, which is nice.” WantMeanBeautifulLaughingComedyNiceDrugMusicianLaughterPaidJazzCrowdsRelateBeautiful ThingsJazz MusicJazz Musician Author:Alonzo Bodden
“I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps - I'm not kidding you, to utter these words aloud is so surreal to me - but to say, "I had to give up my Super Bowl tickets for my all-expense paid research trip to Argentina's wine country," it was like, who's life is this? It was splendid, and the nice thing was that they renewed my contract for another year.” ThinkingGivingYearsCountryMomentsKidsLife IsNiceGiving UpResearchPaidWineExpensesContractsBowlsTicketsUnemploymentStampsSplendidSurrealNice ThingsSuper BowlArgentinaAnother YearFood StampsSurreal Moments Author:Adam Richman
“I've worked with some great people [in Star Trek], and I was paid handsomely, and it was a nice role. So the whole experience was positive for me.” PeopleWholeStarsRolesNicePaidGreat People Author:Brent Spiner
“People can't bear the idea that I could be sexual and provocative, and still be a nice person with a nice family and a nice husband, and have a career that could work, and be paid a certain amount of money.” PeoplePersonsStillsIdeasCertainCareersNiceBearsAmountHusbandPaidProvocativeNice PersonNice Family Author:Demi Moore
“In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money… and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn’t very good at it.” WantedStuffComedyNiceCarCostPaidVery GoodArchitectureMiserableMaking MoneyDirtyConstructionSwingsHammersNaughtyEarly 20s Author:Adam Carolla
“It's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it.” HoursPayNicePaidTherapy Author:Ron Perlman
“The arrangement was simply FreedomWorks paid Glenn Beck money and Glenn Beck said nice things about FreedomWorks on the air. I saw that a million dollars went to Beck this past year, that was the annual expenditure. I put it down now as basically as paid advertising for FreedomWorks by Beck.” YearsSaidPastMillionsSawsNiceAirPaidDollarsAdvertisingArrangementsMillion DollarsNice ThingsAnnualsExpenditures Author:Dick Armey