I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.
The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available.
The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.
I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.
I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.
A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain.
When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties.
American corporations hate to give away money.
Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.