Deirdre O'Kane quote: "My salary swings an unbelievable amount. When I had Holly, I took seven months off, so my salary was very low. It fluctuates wildly. No one pays you for the period you spend writing. I am certainly not rich."

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ENRICO LETTA

I thought, this is one way of getting rich quick - I get the salary and, at most, it couldn't take t...
LEWIS MILESTONE

In my first start-up, I didn't get any salary for four years, so I had to move back with my pare...
TRAVIS KALANICK

It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.
CHARLES A. JAFFE

An idyllic period of my existence was when I had a den attached to my home... a writing den, and no ...
WOLE SOYINKA

Although it is a point of dissatisfaction, [low] salary is probably not the top one.
GEORGE JACKSON

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.
GENE TIERNEY

I told you what his salary was. Y'all act like I was telling you wrong.
CHARLES BROOKS

In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to wor...
IQBAL QUADIR

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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

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ETAN THOMAS

My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.
DUKE SNIDER

There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.
DREW CAREY

It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.
JESSICA SAVITCH

I will have to pay 12 percent of my salary for six years.
ANJA THIESSEN

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SUNDAY ADELAJA

When I had got my notes all written out I thought I'd polish it off in two summers, but it took me t...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE

If you're a brain surgeon it's more like two weeks' salary. But if you're flipping burgers, spending...
CHUCK KUBA

When it was time to board my flight, I took one last glance back. I knew that I had everything with ...
ANDREA BOUCHAUD

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off...
JONATHAN COE

When I was 13 or 14, I took seven months off from touring. I did a lot of weekend gigs in Louisiana....
HUNTER HAYES

It was an opportunity to spend time with my family and live a normal life back in Australia, ... Whe...
ALICIA MOLIK

I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low...
DARREN ARONOFSKY

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GINGER ROGERS

Harold emphasized to me the importance of including my own salary in any cost projections that I had...
MICHAEL JONES

Integrity is the greatest commodity that pays the highest salary in any human endeavor. Integrity re...
MICHAEL QUANSAH

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RICKY JAY

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ALEX PETTYFER

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CARMEN BUSQUETS

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DAWN WILCOX

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PATIN HOWARD

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MARK TWAIN

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BRIAN MASON

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC s...
DEBORAH COPAKEN KOGAN

I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump [Wrigley Field] all the time.
BABE RUTH

[She was pregnant when the pilot for the show was filmed.] They shot me out in three days, so it was...
DENISE RICHARDS

It's like whoa, this is what you want to be doing. This is why you put in all the hard work. Why am ...
DAMON HOLLINS

I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pen...
JEFF KINNEY

My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular musi...
JAMES BLUNT

I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand doll...
NOLAN RYAN

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he say...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I did not want to go back for any more loans. If that meant taking artists off salary, that's what I...
FERNE CAULKER

I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack ...
JOHN LYDON

I am probably in the best shape I've ever been in but I haven't raced. I was so nervous at the start...
JANA PITTMAN

It's a very tough situation. I would not go [to the Olympics] if I did not feel 100 percent. I know ...
PETER FORSBERG

My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was readin...
BARBARA CORCORAN

I'm very disappointed that he had to spend eight months in jail when there was absolutely no reason ...
LANNY BREUER

I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of,...
SIMON COWELL

I gave up writing for seven years (very biblical) and picked it up again, still clueless and still s...
DAVID BERGEN

I don't care if you call it restricted stock, options, bonus, salary the question is...why?
DAVE PETSO

That's the beauty of argument-if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.
, THANK YOU FOR SMOKING, 2006

I am very happy with my life, but seven or eight months a year, I am away from home. I want to go ho...
ADOLFO CAMBIASO

I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffe...
DENNIS LEHANE

I have employed someone who earns money for me and does not charge anything .. i call it my corpus o...
MANOJ ARORA

i am not rich, but my heart is enough rich that you can stay there for the rest of your life.
PRASOON DWIVEDI

Since my mother passed away, my father and I forged a bond that is so tighter than one could possibl...
JENNA MORASCA

When I was seven months pregnant with my son, my mother and I took a trip to El Salvador, where she&...
CHRISTY TURLINGTON

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other playe...
BOB UECKER

I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for mu...
LYDIA DAVIS

If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
CARLISLE FLOYD

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off i...
WARREN SPAHN

I played well except for three swings off the tee. My goal for today was 14 under. I got there but t...
BRAD BRYANT

You cannot become great by working for salary.
SUNDAY ADELAJA

I went to see 'The Piano' with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just...
CHERRY JONES

Even if I were offered twice my salary elsewhere, I would stay at Juve. Doing so would make me proud...
GIANLUIGI BUFFON

My father would leave home for seven or eight months of the year trying to pursue his hockey career....
BERNICE CARNEGIE

There's one scene where I took my t-shirt off. I was wearing a t-shirt and a hoodie, and I took ...
BEN HARDY

Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I wa...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE

I can't stand quitters. My mother is a very strong, determined woman. I was peeling onions when ...
ESTELLE

I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only...
RACHEL NICHOLS

It's a relatively low starting salary, about half of what I have been making. But I believe with my ...
JOANNE JOHNSON

I had a horrible, horrible breakdown. It was just huge, like the worst period of my life, and it las...
PENELOPE CRUZ

There was that period of time, everybody had told me about six months, before you really got it. It ...
ANDREA SNYDER

Since I was 8 months old, till I was 12, I did commercials and ads and cute little stuff for kids. T...
BAR REFAELI

People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no...
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibi...
GEDDY LEE

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent fil...
JESSICA LANGE

Darling,
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JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But ...
PAMELA STEPHENSON

I had no doubts that my team would have pulled it off. It was less than what we were used to scoring...
CAROL HIBBERT

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JONATHAN EVISON

Work not for salary alone
JENNY ROSALES-FERAER

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AARON SORKIN

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IMELDA MARCOS

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MATTHEW NABLE

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ABRAHAM VERGHESE

I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the note...
ESTELLE

I left the White House in 2007. You know, I knew when I went there that it would be for a limited pe...
KARL ROVE

What I did was a terrible thing, ... Words cannot describe how I'd feel if someone took my daughter ...
JONATHAN MILLER

The amount of turnovers was unbelievable, especially at the beginning. It seemed like we never got a...
ANDY ATHANAS

Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

I roll my eyes. "So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?"
"No,...
SUZANNE COLLINS

How Low am I, thou painted Maypole? Speak:
How Low am I? I am not yet so Low
But that my N...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it in...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved...
DOUGLAS SIRK

When I had my cancer, the chemotherapy took my hair away. So then I decided I would just keep it sho...
ANTHONY WARLOW

Writing to you is like some embarrassing remake of Waiting For Godot. Why don't you jerk off on pape...
MARYSE HOLDER

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CATHERINE TATE

I had never heard of Cingular, but they needed people to jump on trampolines. Well, when I was 13, I...
NATE TORRENCE

My salary swings an unbelievable amount. When I had Holly, I took seven months off, so my salary was very low. It fluctuates wildly. No one pays you for the period you spend writing. I am certainly not rich.

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Deirdre O'Kane

My salary swings an unbelievable amount. When I had Holly, I took seven months off, so my salary was very low. It fluctuates wildly. No one pays you for the period you spend writing. I am certainly not rich.

Deirdre O'Kane

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