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Work is making a living out of being bored. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life. -- John Wooden
Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life. -- Denzel Washington
I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living. -- Robert Fulghum
If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?' -- John Cleese
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living. -- Robert Henri
Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work? -- Tom Hodgkinson
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance. -- Ogden Nash
My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice. -- Angie Stone
Making a living out of acting sounded like science-fiction when I was growing up. I didn't know anyone around me who lived from anything related to art. -- Penelope Cruz
The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started. -- J. G. Holland
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people. -- William J. Clinton
There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky. -- Colin Mochrie
The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living. -- Ian Mckellen
I never thought I'd be making a living off of acting - it's still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night. -- Matthew Gray Gubler
I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I used to play flute and clarinet at school, and although I wasn't thinking about making a living or getting a pay cheque, I already knew I was going to play music all my life. -- Nile Rodgers
It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing. -- John Boyne
Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn't pay for itself - particularly not when a search engine is serving all the ads. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Don't sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to making a living from home in any career you want. -- James Altucher
Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids. -- Denise Mina
Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that. -- Ad Reinhardt
I'm one of those lucky guys making a living out of something I really enjoy doing. That's a blessing. But you never know. What if my subsequent book series flops? I don't come from a wealthy background, so I'd be left with no choice. I'd have to go back into banking! -- Amish Tripathi
Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.' -- Haruki Murakami
Our everyday cares, making a living, the crazy rat race of life, often make us forget the value of a good deed. Thus, the goodness that exists within each and every one of us is covered with layer upon layer of indifference and unawareness. In fact, we almost have to be reminded of the fact that goodness is there inside us. -- Shari Arison
I'm from a working-class family. We didn't have a lot, but we had the arts. You're talking to a guy who is making a living at doing what he loves doing - acting, singing and dancing. So any career ups and downs were not that significant to me; the only things that really powerfully impinged on me were my losses, and there were many in my life. -- John Travolta
Nothing tops making a living off your passion. -- G-Eazy
What I'm living for now is making America great again. -- Donald Trump
I don't make my living making records. Maybe someday I will. -- Dan Auerbach
Ive been making my living with this material for over 15 years. -- Jay Sankey
We should be in the business of living, not making a living. -- Lucien Bourjeily
The difficulty is not making a decision, it's living with the consequences. -- Micah Baldwin
Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions. -- Pico Iyer
Living life is a choice. Making a difference in someone else's isn't. -- Kid Cudi
Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living. -- Jim Harrison
It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living. -- Martha Plimpton
We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now! -- Rumi
I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes. -- Eva Green
Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules. -- Aimee Mullins
Any time you're making a living at what you love to do, you're blessed. -- Tom Petty
Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people. -- Maureen Forrester
Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. -- Dolly Parton
The rich spend their life living; the poor spend their life making a living. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
As far as making a living, acting has been much more lucrative. Music's been tough. -- Taryn Manning
I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'. -- Maya Angelou
I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. -- Alan Arkin
Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you. -- Eleanor Holmes Norton
Here I am as a running back, making a pretty good living, actually doing pretty good. -- Brandon Jacobs
I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test. -- Robert Fulghum
A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life. -- William Barclay
Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life. -- John Wooden
By making time to read, like making time to love, we expand our time for living. -- Daniel Pennac
I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house. -- Maisie Williams
You can't persuade most of the public that education and making a living aren't the same thing. -- Robertson Davies
Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see. -- Jean-Luc Godard
Every individual was put on this earth to accomplish some purpose bigger than just making a living. -- Joe Tye
I see myself working, making a living and doing projects that I'm passionate about, regardless of the medium. -- Matt Bomer
Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making -- Reba McEntire
Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress. -- Amy Jo Johnson
I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices. -- LeAnn Rimes
I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else. -- Sonny Rollins
At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it. -- Fred Saberhagen
Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living. -- Mary McLeod Bethune
The hardest part of living is making peace with your past. Most of all, it's making peace with yourself. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I wasn't interested in making a lot of money, but I was interested in making a lot of living. -- Dale Carnegie
Making a decision to live a life of excellence, and living a life of excellence are two difference things. -- Bohdi Sanders
Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living. -- Kristin Gore
What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch. -- Criss Jami
In the end Love conquered every heart and each living soul, imparting its rays of wisdom and making us whole. -- Jamil Hussain
Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life. -- Henry Moore
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Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living. -- James Wood-Mason
Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance. -- Ogden Nash
What we are living with is the result of human choices and it can be changed by making better, wiser choices. -- Robert Redford
I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow. -- Ethel Waters
I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living. -- Herbert Hoover
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. -- Abraham Lincoln
It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future. -- Amy Krouse Rosenthal
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I have been waiting for the devil living inside of me to stop making love to all the ghosts you left behind. -- Tyler Kent
Don't be so busy making a living that you forget how to live. Work hard to be successful, but enjoy the journey. -- David Cottrell
Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of one-observer and subject-making choices, living with them, recording the effects. -- George A. Sheehan
I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years. -- Hugh Jackman
Marriage is not just about love and living together. It's much more complicated, especially when you are going to be making a family. -- Laura Schlessinger
Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community. -- Rudolf Virchow
I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don't pay much attention to the past or the future. -- Matthew McConaughey
You know when I was younger I used to look at Downbeat Magazine and I figured anybody in Downbeat must be making a living. -- Lester Bowie
If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories. -- James M. Cain
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary. -- Joseph Campbell
I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music. -- Terry Bozzio
When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment. -- Karan Johar
Sheet music, recording, radio, television, cassettes, CD burners, and file sharing have all invalidated, to some extent, the old model of making a living making music. -- Kent Beck
We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. -- Jeremiah Wright
After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art. -- Robert Henri
Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait. -- Dorothy Richardson
Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss. -- Rebecca Solnit
What is the point of living this beautiful life if you do not have a mission that ends up making the world a better place to live. -- Manoj Arora
Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life. -- Urijah Faber
Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a way to make a living. -- David Byrne
She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons.... -- Maureen Johnson
It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through. -- E. L. Doctorow
The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started. -- J. G. Holland
How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know. -- Ernest Henry Wilson
I will revive the legend of the economic miracle, making the country a place where people have no worry about living and young people merrily go to work. -- Park Geun-hye
The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living. -- Ann Patchett
The goal of Scientology is making the individual capable of living a better life in his own estimation and with his fellows and the playing of a better game. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Success is not only the financial wealth you accumulate, it is also about being a leader, improving your relationships, living healthfully, and making a real difference in the world. -- Darren Hardy

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