Quotes About Freelance

The worst thing about being a freelance film director is that you're scrambling around Soho with a briefcase, looking for somewhere to make phone calls. That was my position for 10 years.

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.

told you, we're rebuilding. There's you, there's Larison, I hope, and there are a few others. And there are two in particular I want you to track down." "Who?" "A former marine sniper, goes by the name Dox, is one." "Who's the other?" Hort took a sip of wine. "The same man who taught me about honne and tatemae. A half-Japanese former soldier gone freelance, named Rain. John

Yokely. 'If it wasn't for the pension, I'd go freelance. But I've got three kids in college and a wife who wants a holiday home in Florida.' 'The NSA's not so bad, Dean,' said Yokely. 'At least you don't spend half your life at thirty thousand feet.' 'And what brings you to Crypto City?

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.

There are always people looking for extra income.

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

For the vast majority of my adult life, I was a freelance writer, forever scrambling for work that paid an insulting non-amount.

Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently.

The man who writes for hire has an obligation, if only to himself, to keep an open mind and to absorb new ideas.

Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?

All I really needed to know about being a freelance assassin I learned before my youngest daughter, Trisha, started kindergarten.

All I really needed to know about being a freelance assassin I learned before my youngest daughter, Trisha, started kindergarten. I've come to that realization as I lay naked and handcuffed to the bed of my target du jour, a sleazebag by the name of Yuri Petrovich.

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.

Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.

Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

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If you're on a contract at 'The New Yorker,' the contract specifies the number of words you will publish in the magazine per year. I get paid by the word, like most writers. That's one reason why the Scientology article was 25,000 words long!

I don't like just traveling in for a short time. I've done that before, because sometimes you work for magazines and they have a budget, and if you're working for them, they want something by a certain time.

In the theatre in the U.K., women are at the very top of the tree as freelance directors.

I live in such a free-lance world and I've done 'Trek' so infrequently, when you really think about it, that continuity really isn't an issue to me. I live in a much more undetermined, gypsylike world.

I was freelance proof-reading, freelance editing, creating illustrated slides for doctors' presentations - just so I'd have enough money to take the time to write. That's how I got by.