#making a living

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living. ↗

— Robert Henri

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Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it. ↗

— Walter Hill

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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

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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

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I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

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Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living. ↗

— Melissa Leo

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When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor. ↗

— William H. Macy

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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

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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

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It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

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