Cheques Quotes - Page 3

• The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.

  Steven Spielberg

  Careers, Directors, Hollywood

  "War Horse - Steven Spielberg interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

  Tony Parsons

  Thinking, Years, Class

  "My Week: Tony Parsons". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.

  Babatunde Fashola

  Fixed, Contracts, Screening

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