Billing Quotes

• There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles.

  Anne Bancroft

  Roles, May, Want

  The Associated Press interview, 1997.

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• My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

  Jack Nicholson

  Hate, Thinking, Play

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• Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.

  William Hamilton Maxwell

  Execution, Witness

  William Hamilton MAXWELL (1856). “Stories of Waterloo. By W. H. Maxwell”, p.8

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• I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Mean, Hours, Fees

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• In nighttime series, the actor gets billing up front on every episode.

  Michael Zaslow

  Actors, Night Time, Episodes

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• There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single billing code for patient adherence or improvement, or for helping patients stay well.

  Clayton Christensen

  Care, Adherence, Helping

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• Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Life, Bad Day

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

  Josh Billings

  Greatest Victory, Gains, Funny Business

  "Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia". Book by Jacob Morton Braude (p. 601), 1962.

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• Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.

  Richard Harris Barham

  Long, Thrice, Saved

  Richard Harris Barham (1867). “The Ingoldsby legends; or, Mirth and marvels, by Thomas Ingoldsby. Carmine ed”, p.226

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• I hate Billings, Montana. They have a fashion show at Sears Roebuck

  Joan Rivers

  Fashion, Hate, Cities

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• Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

  John W. Gardner

  Running, Being Yourself, Clever

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• Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

  Josh Billings

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• Sensitive husbands don't like second billing.

  Joan Crawford

  Husband, Sensitive

  Joan Crawford (2017). “A Portrait of Joan: The Autobiography of Joan Crawford”, p.160, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• When I was 16 I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. My main feedback came from my English teacher, Miss Bessie B. Billings, who said, 'I can't understand this at all, dear, so it must be good.

  Margaret Atwood

  Teacher, Encouragement, School

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• You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Loyalty, Iphone, Apples

  "Hell Freezes Over: Warner Music claims Itunes is Digital Music Done Right" by Bryan Gardiner, www.wired.com. November 14, 2007.

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• Sensitive husbands don't like second billing. I don't believe Franchot ever for a moment resented the fact that I was a star. Possibly he resented Hollywood's refusal to let him forget it. There was never a doubt in my mind that his talent was greater than mine.

  Joan Crawford

  Stars, Husband, Believe

  Joan Crawford (2017). “A Portrait of Joan: The Autobiography of Joan Crawford”, p.160, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• On Christmas morning, our joy or our happiness can be at a very high level, not because of our anticipation of what we might receive but, rather, in anticipation of watching our loved ones open our gifts to them. In fact, if we're not careful, we can fail to register sufficient excitement and joy upon opening the gifts we receive from others. We must remember that they are happiest at that time and to give them top billing, to stretch their happiness to its full length.

  Earl Nightingale

  Christmas, Morning, Giving

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• I don't care whether a role is 10 minutes long or two hours. And I don't care whether my name is up there on top, either. Matter of fact, I'd rather have someone else get top billing; then if the picture bombs, he gets the blame, not me.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Names, Two, Long

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• I, too, am deeply concerned with an overarching idea that dramaturgs are now authors . . .. I am not taking the position that all dramaturgs own copyright, deserve special billing credit, or should receive remuneration akin to that of the playwright. I know from my ears at the Dramatists Guild that almost everyone a writer encounters has suggestions of how to write and rewrite the play or musical to make it work.

  Dana Rosemary Scallon

  Writing, Play, Ideas

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• See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys: No fears of future want molest The downy quiet of their nest.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Eye, Joy, Nests

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1825). “The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers”, p.525

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• Apple already had everyone's billing information from iTunes... you could buy things just by typing in your password... That, for the first time, brought very, very easy payment to the modern software world. That, more than anything, is why there is a business for paid apps.

  Marco Arment

  Apples, World, Information

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• From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.

  Robert Pozen

  Law, Giving, Perspective

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• To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  New York, Heaven, Dying

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• A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

  Josh Billings

  Love, Friendship, Dog

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