#making a living

I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted. ↗

— David Friedman

#anybody #been #concerned #conducted #first

I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#between #clear #clear distinction #distinction #i

At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#goal #keep #living #making #making a living

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

#busy #daughter #forget #get #going

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

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

#careers #control #covers #else #everyone

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

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living? ↗

— James Rouse

#capacity #free #knowledge #lived #living

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living. ↗

— Robert Henri

#art #i #i am #interested #life

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