#paid

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#damn #dollars #experience #exposed #go

I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

#academy #am #contribute #convince #count

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#called #get #him #never #once

So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped. ↗

— David Knopfler

#arrangement #blood #company #i #large

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#because #expect #fun #get #good

Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#acting #actually #always #attention #big

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#end #end result #enviable #enviable position #get

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#achieve #already #enough #everything #find

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend. ↗

— David Trimble

#beam #bend #close #close attention #driving

I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off. ↗

— Larry Wall

#goofing #i #just #off #paid