#livin

The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#break #conglomerate #diversity #doing #field

A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to make a living, the media could focus on the broad country. And most people had no choice about getting political information. It was there at 6:30 whether you wanted it or not. ↗

— David Frum

#ago #broad #channels #choice #could

Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#before #confluence #economic #financial #hit

I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels. ↗

— David Duchovny

#envisioned #i #life #living #make

I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it. ↗

— Al Jourgensen

#hilton #i #life #live #live life

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#came #difference #events #exalted #i

Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living in different worlds because we're on different continents. ↗

— Philip Glass

#better #coming #continents #different #different worlds

When you recognize or experience the truth about yourself you automatically feel love, because love is a quality of your true consciousness and true ideas. ↗

— Tae Yun Kim

#life-and-living #love #truth #experience

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#bringing #considerably #destroying #down #leave

I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.' ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#anymore #because #classes #feel #glad