I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.
Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.
You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.
The Lord clearly defined the roles of providing for and rearing a righteous posterity. In the beginning, Adam, not Eve, was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow.
I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.
To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize.
Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple.
CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.
They view repentance as the thing they have to do in order to earn forgiveness, therefore the more difficult they make it, the more credit they tally up.
I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.
Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn a paycheck while you're waiting to kick the door down.
When suddenly everybody is guessing, or some even getting close, to the ballpark of what you're earning - well, that's interesting, that everyone knows what you make.
Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
Even if you're lucky to have a play on Broadway like 'Chinglish,' you don't necessarily earn enough off it to support the years it takes to get there.
Maybe love is something we’re meant to say casually and not regard as a prize from a treasure chest that a person earns.
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.
I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.
