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We spent our lives making livings.
Work is making a living out of being bored.
Nothing tops making a living off your passion.
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
We should be in the business of living, not making a living.
Making a living doing something you love is my idea of happiness.
It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.
An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.
Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.
Wrestling was my way of making a living. I did the very best I could.
Any time you're making a living at what you love to do, you're blessed.
I do feel incredibly lucky to be making a living at things I love doing.
Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.
Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.
I don't think of myself as an American Master. I've just been making a living.
I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.
I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.
I didn't associate playing tennis with making a living until I was maybe 18 or 19.
As far as making a living, acting has been much more lucrative. Music's been tough.
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'
I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.
When I was 19 or 20 years old, I wasn't making a living wrestling. I needed a full-time income.
At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.
Creating music based on art and giving away from your spirit is more important than making a living.
I never put a premium on making a living. It was never one of those things that was important to me.
Mindfulness is natural when you do not need to think about minor daily problems like making a living!
Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?
I love my job. I love waking up in the morning and doing this, and I want to continue making a living doing it.
It doesn't matter how big the shows are, as long as I'm making a living playing music. That's all that matters to me.
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
I am getting to travel all over the world doing what I love and making a living out of it. That is a huge blessing to me.
My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice.
I just have to focus on what I can do and keep making a living and keeping my name up there as the best pound-for-pound fighter.
My motivation is to keep fighting, to keep putting food on my family's table, keep making a living off of boxing. That's my motivation.
It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided myself that I was making a living in the theater.
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.
When we talk about chefs, we often talk about their love of food or their passion for it, but cooking is also about making a living; it's a job.
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.
I never thought I'd be making a living off of acting - it's still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.
I'm expressing myself by acting. I'm learning about myself and making a living. I hope to do much more of it, so I can contribute my share to the world.
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.
Making a living out of acting sounded like science-fiction when I was growing up. I didn't know anyone around me who lived from anything related to art.
I can't complain. I'm making a living out of what I do, which is really rare for a lot of actors. The hard part is staying confident and staying with it.
I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.
My parents were always doubtful about my making a living as an artist. Even when I was up for the Turner Prize, my mum suggested I apply for a curator's job.
I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted.
I was having a nice anonymous little time as a writer. I really was on the writer path. I was sort of minding my own business. I loved making a living in music.
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.