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  • Artists deserve to make a living -- Larry Harvey
  • I don't need to publish to make a living. -- J. K. Rowling
  • Jazz groups have to make a living any way. -- Lester Bowie
  • The normal make a living. The deranged make history. -- Christopher Titus
  • To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness. -- Pierre Beaumarchais
  • Work to make a living; serve to make a life. -- Will Rogers
  • I get to do interesting roles and make a living. -- Aidan Quinn
  • The arts are not a way to make a living, -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • Everybody should get to make a living with their passion. -- Jim Butcher
  • You don't have to die in order to make a living. -- Lynn Johnston
  • Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah. -- Marc Maron
  • people with romantic illusions find it hard to make a living. -- Liza Cody
  • Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference. -- Denzel Washington
  • I don't like to feel intimidated by where I make a living. -- Nat Hentoff
  • A few photographers make a killing; the rest can't make a living. -- Bill Jay
  • I make a living out of being pompous! Why should I change? -- Nicholas Parsons
  • You make a living from 8 to 5, but you make money from 5 to 8. -- Bill Kraus
  • Everybody has to sell out at some point to make a living. -- Dennis Miller
  • We get to make a living; we give to make a life. -- Winston Churchill
  • A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. -- Joey Lauren Adams
  • Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby -- George Bernard Shaw
  • Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living. -- Tracy Kidder
  • When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it. -- Jack Gleeson
  • People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites. -- Frank Sinatra
  • Music's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it. -- John Lennon
  • You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by. -- Sam Shepard
  • It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible. -- Billy Joel
  • We must not only aim to make a living but to live life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space. -- Niall Ferguson
  • I don't feel like basketball is the only way to make a living. -- Derek Fisher
  • My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor. -- Adam Driver
  • If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything. -- Richard LaGravenese
  • Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure. -- Dianne Wiest
  • If I depended on critics and children to make a living I'd grow broke. -- Walt Disney
  • You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living. -- Casey Stengel
  • It's important for me as an actor to be able to make a living. -- Patricia Arquette
  • A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living. -- James A. Michener
  • It's easier to make a living doing shows then it is to sell albums. -- Classified
  • Go to school to make a living. Learn about yourself to define your life. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
  • If you can make a living doing what you love, that is a blessing. -- David A. R. White
  • Always I'm working on some of book. That's the way I make a living. -- Jimmy Carter
  • Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living. -- Warren Buffett
  • I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything. -- Taylor Hawkins
  • I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way. -- Dennis Quaid
  • I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living. -- J. C. Watts
  • I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living. -- Grimes
  • The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life. -- Jim Rohn
  • To make a living is no longer enough. Work also has to make a life. -- Peter Drucker
  • I make a living doing what I love doing, and it's what brings me joy. -- Tom Cochrane
  • I made people laugh as a kid, but that's not how you make a living. -- Bob Newhart
  • From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. -- Arthur Ashe
  • You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living. -- Sherwood Anderson
  • I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living. -- Morris Chestnut
  • Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living. -- Kirke Mechem
  • You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to. -- Chelsea Cain
  • Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living. -- Carey Williams
  • We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world. -- Woodrow Wilson
  • It's one thing to make a beautiful thing; it's another thing to make a living thing. -- John Paul Caponigro
  • If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else. -- S. Truett Cathy
  • If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego. -- David Brin
  • We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill
  • The theatre, which is my most comfortable place, unfortunately it's very hard to make a living in. -- Kevin Conroy
  • My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it. -- Robert Zoellick
  • It's very difficult to make a living in music these days. All it takes is somebody paying. -- Terry Bozzio
  • I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it. -- Wallace Shawn
  • Don't be so busy trying to make a living that you're too busy to make a life. -- Dan Miller
  • Einstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living. -- Orhan Pamuk
  • The obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living. -- Leonard Cohen
  • How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker -- Gail Collins
  • I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world -- Vivienne Westwood
  • No matter what the role, you're trying to do the impossible - make a living in show business. -- Peter Gallagher
  • Because my movies are not successful, they are not shown. So I make a living from the budget. -- Jean-Luc Godard
  • If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong -- Casey Neistat
  • In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life. -- William Allen White
  • To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering. -- Kathy Griffin
  • I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living. -- Steve Buscemi
  • You know I hate fighting. If I knew how to make a living some other way, I would. -- Muhammad Ali
  • Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it. -- Huey Lewis
  • I gotta make a living somehow, and make ends meet. I accept the idea of having a retirement. -- Ted Leo
  • I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist. -- Pete Seeger
  • If everyone were like him (Mitch Williams) I wouldn't play. I'd find a safer way to make a living. -- Andy Van Slyke
  • Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? -- Stephen Ambrose
  • Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich. -- Lynda Obst
  • Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • I'm grateful my teenaged daughter is healthy and well and for the work I do to make a living. -- Alton Brown
  • I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. -- Adam Driver
  • Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes. -- Jack London
  • We make a living by what we give; and live a life by what we have yet to give. -- George Alexiou
  • I make a living with a song, and I feel honored to do something I love and believe in. -- Jewel
  • I am somehow allowed by the universe to do exactly what I want to do to make a living. -- Kyle Kinane
  • I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living -- Lyle Lovett
  • I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that? -- Nigel Dennis
  • I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor. -- Sydney Pollack
  • I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. -- W. E. B. Griffin
  • I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit? -- Doc Watson
  • I kind of go where the wind blows, and TV has just been how I make a living so far. -- David Walton
  • Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor. -- Casey Kasem
  • I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career. -- Angie Dickinson
  • Education is worth little if it teaches only how to make a living rather than how to make a life. -- Mary Hatwood Futrell
  • We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years. -- George Carlin
  • I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living -- Harold Budd
  • The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy. -- Malcolm Forbes
  • I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York. -- Mose Allison
  • There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. -- James Truslow Adams
  • Harder is Better! Post work out! Foot in the Ice Bath. A girl has to make a living! #hardcandytoronto. #addictedtosweat -- Madonna Ciccone
  • My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it. -- Jordin Sparks
  • When you're a drama student, I think the most you hope for is to make a living out of acting. -- Tom Ellis
  • I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that. -- Liz Phair
  • If I never got to make a living doing what I loved, I'd still do it--for fun and for free. -- Susan E. Isaacs
  • For anyone who has that calling and is trying also to make a living at it, it is really hard. -- Julie Gold
  • I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music. -- Charlie Daniels
  • In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living. -- Steve Guttenberg
  • I have no real talents. If I could make a living at a normal job, I'm sure I would do that. -- Daniel Tosh
  • Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education. -- Huey Long
  • I think it's easier to identify with guys who are just trying to make a living and working day to day. -- Connor Paolo
  • America's always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be harder to make a living that way. -- Charles P. Pierce
  • The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972. -- Sam Waterston
  • So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby. -- Rick Baker
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