80 Freelancers Quotes
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Famous Freelancers Quotes
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. — Robert Benchley
The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere. — S. J. Perelman
Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business. — Philip Johnson
Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters. — A. Lee Martinez
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index. — Oliver Goldsmith
We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with. — Dieter Rams
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance. — Nancy Pelosi
I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee. — Bruce Vilanch
You're only as good as the people you hire. — Ray Kroc
Thousand-dollar-an-hour New York professionals who pay $50 an hour for a car and driver so they can work while they commute understand clearly the monetary value of their time. — Edward O. Thorp
I am associated with techno epics. — Trevor Horn
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. — Charles Bukowski
If you're just creative, you'll always have to rely on technical people. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable. — Robert Rodriguez
Short Freelancers Quotes
- Freelancing now accounts for more than one-third of jobs in America. — Paul Jarvis
- I went back to bumming around New York, writing freelance stuff for Car & Driver and such. — P. J. O'Rourke
- Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work. — Miranda Otto
- I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right. — Rachel Johnson
- I am truly independently owned and operated. — Bret Michaels
- When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs. — Curtis Sittenfeld
- The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. — Robert Benchley
- Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's. — Brock Yates
- I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself. — Gloria Steinem
- I'm pretty freelance. A freelance meditator. I float from one thing to the other. — Alex Ebert
Freelance Quotes
The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives. — Douglas Rushkoff
If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out. — Allan Savory
When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry. — Loretta Young
I've been very lucky. I've had three separate careers: freelance illustrator, then set designer, puppetteer and animator, and now fine artist. I just bluffed my way into every one of 'em! — Wayne White
I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for me, and I spent six or nine months freelancing. Anyway, I wasn't that good at it. — Anne M. Mulcahy
Freelance isn't for everyone - you've got to be aggressive and enjoy working alone. But you could make more money than you ever imagined. — Nicole Williams
When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket. — Tabitha Soren
When I had independence, it was a constant battle within me to figure out when am I on my own. And also the insecurity that my life engendered, especially as a freelance cartoonist, kept me in a constant state of anxiety as to whether I am going to be able to meet my financial obligations. — Al Jaffee
I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don't really care what you think off the top of your head. — Tucker Carlson
My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it. — Kevin J. Anderson
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 Red Adair |
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More Freelancers Quotes
I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965. — Michael Bond
Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a writer - which it definitely feels like when you're struggling to write regularly or can't seem to earn a living as a freelance writer - maybe you need to take a long-term perspective. — J. K. Rowling
The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance. — Albert Camus
During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school. — Kurt Vonnegut
I hope to submit to the little pamphlet magazines here 'freelance' and perhaps shall join the Labour Club, as I really want to become informed on politics, and it seems to have an excellent program. I am definitely not a Conservative, and the Liberals are too vague and close to the latter. — Sylvia Plath
A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost. — Tim Ferriss
I got asked by a freelance journalist to jump in front of Princess Diana's funeral. How pathetic is that? That would have been the stupidest thing on the planet. — Mark Roberts
When I got out of college I worked for DC comics. I worked on staff there and I also freelanced for them for about a decade. I spent two years on staff as an editor right out of college. I'm from Los Angeles and I came back here after a couple of years in New York, to go to Graduate School at USC. I wasn't thinking specifically about animation although while I'd worked at DC. — Greg Weisman
I first started making films - this is my first feature, but I was making shorts - I was actually freelancing as a day job at The New York Times as an art director. I actually worked with Bill Cunningham and really soon after I met him, I thought, "Oh my God, he's a perfect subject for a documentary." — Richard Press
I do really well when a challenge is put in front of me. I don't just wake up and write. I like being forced to make decisions on the spot. I think that's why I've done so many things as a freelancer. — Njena Reddd Foxxx
It's not that writing staffs don't change at all, but they don't change very much. Directors are freelancers. There are directors who do five or 10 episodes of a show every year for years, but most directors are freelance, they come and go. — John Landgraf
My biggest fear, that 27 percent of Americans under 65 have an existing health condition that, without the protections of the Affordable Care Act, would mean they would - could be automatically excluded from insurance coverage. Before the ACA, they wouldn't have been able to get insurance coverage on the individual market, you know, if you're a freelancer or if you had a small business or the like. — Atul Gawande
In theater they want to put you on a contract a year in advance and I don't really like that. That's the reason why I became an actor - I like the freelance work. It's interesting, I like not being told what to do still, and I have a job where people tell me exactly what to do, so maybe I don't know myself as well as I want to. I think my last play I did was three years ago. — Johan Philip Asbaek
The Lampoon started in 1970, and I began writing freelance for them around the end of 1971, and then all through '72. They hired me in '73, and I left early in '81. I did everything from low puns to being editor-in-chief. — P. J. O'Rourke
Sometimes I call myself a freelance, I can't see any one of the great religions as superior to others. — Karen Armstrong
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund's goal is to produce a broad range of investigative journalism created by both staff reporters and freelance writers, with a focus on working with the many experienced reporters and writers impacted by the economic contraction. The pieces will range from long-form investigations to short breaking news stories and will be presented in a variety of media - including text, audio, and video. — Arianna Huffington
I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective. — Matt Berninger
It wasn't a direct route. I began as a freelance reporter. That's an important distinction, because people who rise through the ranks of The New York Times become vetted, conditioned, harassed, and shaped by the institution. That never happened to me. — Chris Hedges
So for a long time, I did a lot of freelance writing in addition to writing fiction and such - I was a food critic for a magazine for a bit, I did writing for nonprofits and political things, I was the editorial consultant for another magazine for a couple years, all sorts of jobs. — Tod Goldberg
I started designing book jackets, which was great because I was good at it. And then from there I decided to become a freelance graphic designer and I needed to expand beyond book jackets, so I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community. — Biz Stone
When I first went into freelancing, I think there was a period of about eight months when nothing happened. Everything that I wrote crumbled up, and then it became a self-destructive thing - when you begin to doubt yourself, when doubt turns into - it's sort of like impotence. Once impotent, you're forever impotent. Because you're always worried about being impotent. — Rod Serling
Freelancing in Somalia during their civil war and in Kuwait right after the first Bush War, I had some rather intense experiences that made life in the U.S. seem rather shallow and superfluous. — Peter Menzel
My modus operandi after working for a decade as a self-funding freelancer, was to spend as little money as possible to get the job done, even if it was on someone else's nickel. — Peter Menzel
I drove a taxi at night during my last year at BU and then for another 18 months after graduating in order to buy cameras and pay the rent while I tried to figure out for myself how to freelance. — Peter Menzel
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