#buck

I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide. ↗

— Tommy Rettig

#devastated #four #i #mid #tide

Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#around #because #buck #changing #could

I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road. ↗

— James Rollins

#also #another #bit #does #done

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart. ↗

— George A. Romero

#bucks #fail #fart #film #film industry

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean. ↗

— Percy Ross

#buckets #drops #lake #lakes #make

For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song. ↗

— Hilary Rosen

#buck #cost #dollars #investment #just

I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out. ↗

— Pat Cash

#call #go #i #make #mcdonald

Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#coffee #competitors #countries #developing #effort