#cheque

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#being #body #cheque #class #doing

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque. ↗

— Rick Santelli

#cheque #different #different attitude #facing #government

With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it?' ↗

— Brooklyn Decker

#big #big movie #cheque #first #got

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#chequered #got #humour #i #i think

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#conversation #disputes #long #marriage

The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#biggest #cheques #huge #returning #royalty

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#always #charge #cheques #everything #film-making

They tend to lay dormant for a while but often come back, and then the cheques come in! ↗

— Thayer David

#cheques #come #dormant #lay #often

Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#cheques #few #income #now #only

They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques. ↗

— Colin Firth

#although #been #cheques #come #contemplate