Quotes About Freelancing

#1. I grew up in Connecticut, going in and out of New York City, and I worked in the city in the '90s. I was freelancing for the Associated Press, and I fell in love with New York.

Lynsey Addario

#2. I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.'

Kevin Barry

#3. When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#4. For every year past the age of 27, you need to take another step toward commitment somewhere in your life. Instead of freelancing, you get a staff job. Instead of renting, you buy. Fine, instead of couch-surfing, you rent.

Tracy McMillan

#5. I had this great idea: I should get a job. Freelancing came with freedom, but maybe what I required was a cage.

Sarah Hepola

#6. 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

#7. When I'm lined up in the middle, it's a lot of freelancing and blitzing.

Clay Matthews III

#8. I was ... a journalist ... though my typical beat was freelancing articles on Canadian politics, which never included any mention of demonic phenomena, though it might explain the rise of the neoconservatives.

Kelley Armstrong

#9. 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

#10. I started freelancing for the Associated Press. I had a great mentor there who sort of taught me everything.

Lynsey Addario

#11. It was the era that I later analyzed, the "feminine mystique" era, [when] "career woman" was a dirty word. And so I didn't want a career anymore. [But] I had to do something. So I started freelancing for women's magazines.

Betty Friedan

#12. Freelancing requires such strict adherence to toadyism, to sycophancy, to the grubbiest, lowliest submissions. It is an on-spec life and it is full of what can only be described as insane serendipity (or serendipitous insanity).

Richard Morgan

#13. Freelancing is tough. It can be very difficult, in fact. It can wear people down, making them lose sight of what they used to love because they have to do everything else just to get by.

Mason Hipp

#14. 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

#15. In the wicked outside world, my brother told me, there were sins the church didn't know enough to forbid. I couldn't wait.

Chuck Palahniuk

#16. In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.

Stendhal

#17. Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty.

Jeff Cooper

#18. Do what you love...

Lise Cartwright

#19. When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.

Ingrid Newkirk

#20. At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.

Calvin Trillin

#21. Like what you see, lanan?

Rory Ni Coileain

#22. [On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#23. If you love somebody; You better let it out; Don't hold it back; While you're trying to figure it out; Cause the only real pain a heart can ever know; Is the sorrow of regret; When you don't let your feelings show. So, did you say it, Did you mean it?

Jewel

#24. To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of ... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

#25. Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love.

Johnny Cash

#26. They taught me in the Army to make plans based upon the other guy's capabilities, and not based upon his stated intentions. And an employer is capable of firing you at any time.

Stephen Morrill

#27. I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.

W.S. Merwin

#28. She'll come, if not today, then tomorrow, but she'll find me. That's the cursed romanticism of all these pure hearts! Oh the vileness, oh the stupidity, oh the narrowness, of these rotten, sentimental souls

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#29. I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.

Steven Levitan

#30. Once undressed I felt less exposed. (...) Naked was my uniform. (...) There was no pressure to conform.

Aiden Shaw