Peter Wright Quotes
I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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I'd like to to do a major pay-per-view match with Seth Rollins. I'd love do a major pay-per-view match with Stardust.
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Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
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As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.
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You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
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I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.
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Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.
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I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.
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I think if you read all my books you know where I stand, pretty much. You could probably give the reader a questionnaire and they could figure out what I'm about. But I don't think my job is to tell you that.
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We all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said about the lucky author who has a non-literary day job no longer holds, if it ever did. Artists seek validation as much as they seek money. The creation and invention of culture and canon is where most of the trouble lies.
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We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.
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The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power.
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Demonstrate to your customer the difference between price and cost. The price is what it takes to purchase the item. The cost is the amount the customer eventually pays. They are not the same.
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The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.
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When you gotta go out and make a movie to pay for the kid's private school and for the three ex-wives, don't talk to me about your artistry. It's their job. It's not my job. It's my calling.
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Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.
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Do you realize that God expects you to consider that you are actually working for Jesus Christ on your job?
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Americans must either choose big government and be willing to pay for and submit to it, or they must move toward smaller, less intrusive government and be willing to enjoy fewer government programs.
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It's just kind of inspiring. It teaches you that little jobs like being a veterinarian can help a lot of people.
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Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.
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There are 30 great jobs in the NBA, and I've got one of them.
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It takes discipline to be a free spirit.
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How you know where I'm at when you haven't been where I've been?
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I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.
