- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living Quotes
On making a life, and making a living.
This set of living quotes includes a sharply critical political opinion, presented here strictly as the quote's own stated view about the administration it describes, alongside a separate observation about how thin the line has become between personal and professional life. Related reflections continue in our Life quotes.
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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love living in Manhattan, but every time I leave, I say that I'm so happy I'm leaving.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What surprised me the most? Christina Hagan, the millennial Congressional candidate and ardent Trump supporter. I walked into her living room in rural Ohio one summer weekend with an open mind, and I'm grateful she offered the same in return.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's nearly impossible to make a living in the arts.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the chairman of the board of the Actor's Fund. It's an incredible organization. It helps anybody that has made their living in the performing arts and entertainment: actors, singers, dancers, film producers, agents, managers, ticket takers, writers, anybody in times of need or crisis.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been really fortunate that my concert career has taken off hugely. I can make a living. I enjoy performing in front of a live audience, and I can do something different every time. Sometimes I'm with a quartet, sometimes I'm solo, sometimes with a symphony, and I get to go to different cities and meet different people.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Atlanta, in itself, is its own living, breathing thing.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Texas upbringing - and living now in Brooklyn, too - have surely helped my appreciation for open spaces and skies, but beyond that, it's not easy to find words for what it feels like to be up in the Rockies or out on the Great Basin - such silences and spaces! - or to be heading up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Culture is a thousand things, a thousand times. It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living.
- Nov 07, 2020