Making A Living Quotes - Page 4

• Every individual was put on this earth to accomplish some purpose bigger than just making a living.

  Joe Tye

  Purpose, Earth, Individual

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• Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.

  Ad Reinhardt

  New York, School, Artist

  Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.24, Univ of California Press

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• I can't complain. I'm making a living out of what I do, which is really rare for a lot of actors. The hard part is staying confident and staying with it.

  Morena Baccarin

  Complaining, Actors, Staying

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

  Adam Baldwin

  Mean, Keys, Careers

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• I never thought I'd be making a living off of acting - it's still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Night, Family And Friends, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.

  Maureen Forrester

  Art, Jobs, People

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• If anybody had a sense of history, it wasn't me, I'll tell you that. I, I was just enjoying life and, and making a living and, and, you know, listening to all this good music. No, there was never in my mind any kind of sense of history, nothing.

  Cosimo Matassa

  Enjoy Life, Listening, Mind

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• To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at it. It is something you are, and not something you do.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Way, Nihilist, Decent

  Christopher Hitchens (2001). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. That's it. Don't worry about making a living, don't worry about popularity or fame. Make what you do ... count more than what you own.

  David McCullough

  Real, Worry, Popularity

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• There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

  Colin Mochrie

  Years, Skills, Lucky

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I see myself working, making a living and doing projects that I'm passionate about, regardless of the medium.

  Matt Bomer

  Passionate, Projects, Mediums

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• Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Differences, Making A Difference, Difficulty

  Elizabeth Hardwick (2017). “The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick”, p.112, New York Review of Books

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• I love to perform and I love to perform characters, and sometimes when I'm doing television and film, I just feel like I'm making a living. I'm good at it, but I'm not really being artistically challenged.

  Amy Hill

  Character, Television, Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Simplicity, Fellow Man

  Yutang Lin (1962). “The pleasures of a nonconformist”

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• As far as making a living, acting has been much more lucrative. Music's been tough.

  Taryn Manning

  Acting, Tough, Has Beens

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You know when I was younger I used to look at Downbeat Magazine and I figured anybody in Downbeat must be making a living.

  Lester Bowie

  Looks, Magazines, Used

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• It isn't called TV money for nothing. There was a time where I paid my rent by doing theater for years, and I was able to buy groceries and pay my electric bill. I considered myself to be making a living as an actor. This kind of money that we make is a whole other level, of course. But it really is simply the cherry on top of a job and a role that I adore.

  Jim Parsons

  Jobs, Years, Roles

  "Emmys: Q&A With Lead Comedy Actor Nominee Jim Parsons". deadline.com. August 3, 2010.

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• We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now!

  Rumi

  Crazy, Love Poetry, Given

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• Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are not the same thing. Living the good life and living a good life are not the same thing. A job title doesn't even come close to answering the question. "What do you do?".

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Jobs, Titles

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.65, Ivy Books

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• I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Second Chance

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2013

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• Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn't pay for itself - particularly not when a search engine is serving all the ads.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Pay, Journalism, Infinite

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• Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Family, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice.

  Angie Stone

  Daughter, Mother, Advice

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• Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Life, Balance

  Twitter post from Aug 09, 2010

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• We spent our lives making livings.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Our Lives

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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