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Good Living Quotes
Making a living from what you actually love.
This page gathers quotes from people who managed to earn a good living Doing work they genuinely enjoyed, from magic and mail-order music to playing a tough guy on television. Several quotes express real gratitude for that opportunity rather than taking it for granted.
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I made a good living being a tough guy on TV, but I'd rather laugh and joke all day long than try to be a tough guy.
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I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.
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I make a good living doing what I do.
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My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.
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I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.
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I don't fight for my legacy or for the glory or anything like that. The feedback from the fans is nice, don't get me wrong; it's a good feeling having them - you on their side. But I'm motivated by making a good living for my family, and that's what made me get serious about this.
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I made a very good living as a bad writer. I wrote a lot of comedies, 'Diff'rent Strokes,' 'Facts of Life,' while all my friends were doing the good shows, like 'Cheers,' but I loved it because I got to be a working writer in Hollywood.
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My life may be a pretty crazy life at times, but it's a very privileged one - being able to earn a good living doing what you love. Not many people have such an opportunity.
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Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.
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I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.
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When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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For the longest time we looked at the career as a ladder, right, that there was one way up. I want to make sure that in Michigan we think of skills as rock climbing, that there's a different path for everyone. And each has dignity and each has the ability to make a good living here.
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Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.
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To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around.
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