#making a living

You know, I like playing music and playing guitar, and I like to draw, so I thought I would end up just probably barely making a living, or probably having to have some other job, but being involved in one of those things that I really like to do. But that didn't work out like that. ↗

— John Corbett

#being #draw #end #guitar #having

Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#am #how #i #i am #i have learned

In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#after #assets #bank #decade #equipment

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

— Maureen Forrester

#creates #jobs #living #making #making a living

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

#artist #connected #dozen #even #every

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?' ↗

— John Cleese

#dan #dan quayle #fair #fries #life

Work is making a living out of being bored. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#bored #living #making #making a living #out

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life. ↗

— John Wooden

#living #making #making a living #prevent #you

Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it. ↗

— Walter Hill

#business #done #hopefully #i #inevitably

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#dignity #free #free people #fundamental #human