#contract

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, “if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me? ↗

— Charles Stross

#contract-law #contracts #publishing #worst-case-scenarios #business

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement. ↗

— Paul Getty

#always #any #believed #binding #business

I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#contaminate #contract #disrespect #heart #i

Technically, at this point we're no longer with the label; we've fulfilled our contract. ↗

— Peter Steele

#fulfilled #label #longer #our #point

I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing. ↗

— Tony Bennett

#come #contract #drum #give #give me

Now when I say Sophie Ellis-Bextor I feel that's not really me because that's become this entity from doing the gigs and the shows and the make-up contracts and whatever else. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#become #contracts #doing #else #entity

If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across. ↗

— Shania Twain

#came #career #childhood #contract #first

Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way. ↗

— Les Baxter

#anything #capitol #complete #complete freedom #contract

We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#i #ruled #seven #signed #studio

Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me. ↗