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African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance. -- Wole Soyinka
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. -- Gore Vidal
I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together. -- Leonard Cohen
I do smaller films, I'm not getting big paydays. I feel like we're just kind of scraping together here. -- Hope Davis
I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by. -- Edie Falco
I have scars on the backs of my arms from dressers in Paris scraping me with pins as I was taking a shirt or gown off. -- Tyra Banks
I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it. -- Colin Baker
With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on. -- Nick Cave
I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths. -- Hilary Mantel
I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant. -- Wentworth Miller
The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the bills, or you are scraping together your own resources and taking out loans, or a scholarship is making college possible. -- Stanley Hauerwas
My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one. -- Julian Castro
I don't want to be treated like I came from another planet or something or was somehow born with some weird birthright or super power. I don't view myself that way. I am a normal guy, picking up the crap from the dog and scraping the BBQ and having a beer and fixing the shed out back. -- Chris Hadfield
The work that I've gotten in the hiatuses seems to indicate that I will have a little more work after 'Mad Men' than I did when I was scraping by while I was temping in New York, but who knows? People very easily could be like, 'Meh, we're done with that. We've got Jon Hamm. We're good without the weird one with glasses.' -- Rich Sommer
Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship? -- H. P. Blavatsky
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair. -- Alan Watts
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair. -- Alan Watts
I kiss like a skyscraper meets the sky, only with less scraping and more vertigo. -- Jarod Kintz
...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel. -- Andrew Sullivan
Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky. -- Rick Yancey
The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library. -- George R. R. Martin
I don't believe in the scraping of stuff. Take the existing condition, offer up a diagnosis for what's wrong, and a prescription for making it work. -- Tim Gunn
Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive. -- Lauren Willig
Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development. What is necessary is mutual respect. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around the edges of good taste. -- Tom Rush
Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing. -- B. C. Forbes
I need to smell its smells, to hear its sounds, to see food in a pot that simmers, bubbles, sizzles. I enjoy the physical involvement of stirring, turning, poking, mashing, scraping. -- Marcella Hazan
You're killing me because you want me to give a message to God for you?" Jace shook his head, the point of the blade scraping across his throat. "You're crazier than I thought -- Cassandra Clare
I was happy, I wasnt beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasnt what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I dont know how my mother did it. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
The skyscrapers of the city had finished scraping all the sky away, and the clouds overhead were exactly the color of concrete and I was safe and cold in a canyon of glass and steel. -- Michael Montoure

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