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If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes.

I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond — only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.

Of course, it has never paid much.

Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.

Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.

Render more service than you are paid for and eventually you will be paid more for less services rendered.

I don't want to increase taxes, I just want taxes to be paid honestly.

Hillary Clinton wants to push for equal pay and for paid family leave and for better and cheaper childcare.

Some of us wake up in the morning and just wonder how it is any of us actually sustain a paid job.

London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.

There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.

Filmmaking is like playing in your imagination and getting paid to do it. I guess I'll ride this horse until it bucks me.

Thirty-nine was the best year of my life earnings-wise. I paid off my mortgage and felt a massive sense of achievement.

I enjoyed acting and marveled that one could get paid for doing it.

It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.

If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.

When the woman is getting paid drastically less than the male, that whole family is impacted.

Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.

I was a child or didn't live through those presidents prior to [Ronald] Reagan, and thus didn't realize how little attention they had paid to the founders.

Remember, benchmark performance -- beta -- can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate.

Why should I have my picture taken when I can get paid for it?

Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.

Worrying is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe.

Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.

For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.

I go wherever my fare is paid.

Some were paid solely for their ability to dream up the unthinkable.

I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.

Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.

Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.

I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.

For the same work, dudes get paid more.

He [John Le Carré] really paid tribute to the people who are willing to risk their own lives to fight injustice - they are greater men and women than I.

I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.

We have paid the police for information in the past.

The history says quarterbacks get paid more than running backs, but I think it depends on the caliber of the player - what you're getting, not just what the position is.

People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.

It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work without getting paid. But quality will find its way out.

America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the Iraqi people.

I don't think I'd live in London unless you paid me. Nine figures would be nice.

The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

Nah. I’m a consultant, of course. Everyone’s favorite nondescript yet well-paid white-collar job.

I added up all the money the church paid me for the first 25 years and gave it all back.

It's unbelievable really. For something that started off as a hobby, I ended up getting paid for doing it.

Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.

I really have paid my dues! When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days I remind myself of that.

With Twitter, you just want to make people laugh in their meeting; on stage, people have paid for their tickets with their hard-earned money, so I owe them the truth as I experience it.