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Money Quotes
"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."
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"We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in."
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"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money."
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"The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money."
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"Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new."
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"The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy."
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"The money was good while it lasted. The best part was clearly that it changed my view of what's possible, as far as thinking how you can have an impact on a national level."
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"I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level."
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"We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen."
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"I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos."
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"Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost."
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"Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me."
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"There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact."
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"I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it."
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"It is not worth having a burden about money. One breathes a sigh of relief when he deposits money in the bank but becomes unhappy when the money is gone. There is nothing in this world worth being relieved about because it is all temporary."
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"I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had."
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"And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state."
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"I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money."
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"The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money."
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"And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer."
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"On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from."
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"I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy."
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"Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful."
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"It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores."
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"When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude."
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"Once Playboy came to me, all the preachers ran. I needed to pose in Playboy to make money."
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"It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible."
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"Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it."
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