Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.
I like the intimacy of independent films and I like the idea that people aren't being paid necessarily as much money as some one on a studio film.
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid.
With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.
The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.
The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
The amount of excitement when you say hi will be paid back when you say bye!
I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.
Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until 'Bronson.' It gave me a calling card and passage into America, where I've always wanted to work.
Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
The werewolf paid cash, sliding the change into the hip pocket of his jeans.
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Berg paid his way with stories.
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.
And my response is 70,000 people in the state of Maine that paid income tax in 2011 will not be paying income tax in 2012.
