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There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.
Sean Parker

Artists, Written, Whose

I've been drawing since I was a little kid, but it's not something I love to do every day. If there's one thing I love to do every day, it'd probably be acting. I can act every day. I'd happily do it, you don't have to pay me. But that's one thing I'd love to do and get paid for.
Vinny Guadagnino

Love, Acting, Since

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.
Gordon Parks

Camera, Washington, Seven

People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries.
Michel Gondry

Money, Happy, Wrong

There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.
Frank Langella

Life, Change, Great

And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food.
Sandra Oh

Food, Live, Together

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

Work, Big, Acting

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.
Mary Lou Retton

Success, Won, Financial

I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.
Wilford Brimley

Life, Around, Talking

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
Theodore Sturgeon

Writing, Short, Stories

If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.
Kathleen Sebelius

Others, Often, Sure

In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.
Doc Hastings

Family, Time, Business

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
Mel Gibson

Art, Acting, Tell

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.
Brendan Fraser

Tell, Desire, Whether

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.
Brendan Fraser

Attention, Research, Goes

The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Time, Playing, Race

There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Political, Nothing, President

Why work when you can fill out a few forms and get paid for doing nothing?
Alan Sugar

Work, Nothing, Why

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.
Kevin J. Anderson

Work, Time, Home

I worked with everybody, the best, and they actually paid me money to stand next to the people I idolized.
Bobby Sherman

Money, Best, Stand

The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible.
Clara Zetkin

Two, Possible, Female

It is vital that teachers can be paid more without having to leave the classroom. This will be particularly important to schools in the most disadvantaged areas as it will empower them to attract and recruit the best teachers.
Michael Gove

Best, Important, Leave

I don't get paid what people think I get paid for fighting.
Gina Carano

An athlete gets paid a lot of money. And someone who is after that, a thief, a mugger or someone who steals from people, they are taking a chance with the law that if they get caught, they are going to jail or face some other problem. In my case, you are going to get shot.
Luke Scott

Money, Someone, Law

Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.
Andrew Lloyd Webber

Truth, Country, Two

Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.
Wim Wenders

Beautiful, Today, Serious

When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.
Willie Mays

Money, Sports, Game

I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff.
John Barton

Find, Office, Magazine

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.
Sean Penn

Movies, Between, Actor

You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.
Sean Penn

Best, Try, Getting

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