Cheques Quotes

• The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.

  Martin Bashir

  Albums, Literature, Royalty

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• The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

  Tom Cruise

  Giving, Actors, Film

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• With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it?

  Brooklyn Decker

  Jamaica, Parent, Pay

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• The ability to sign a cheque is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness.

  David Plowright

  Business, Guides, Ability

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• I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.

  Carol Vorderman

  Talking, Meat, Dresses

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• Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

  Andre Benjamin

  Art, Hip Hop, Albums

  "Fine and dandy". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2003.

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• As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.

  Ian McShane

  Long, Acting, Enjoy

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• I do wish I had brought my cheque book. I don't believe in credit cards.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Book, Responsibility

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• I don't write cheques anymore because I end up signing them "with love, shan rukh"

  Shahrukh Khan

  Witty, Writing, Ends

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• As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? "Self.

  Eden Phillpotts

  Book, Writing, Self

  Eden Phillpotts (1918). “A Shadow Passes”

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• As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal.

  Louise Mushikiwabo

  Country, Money, Equality

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• I do the best I can - I know my way around [Russian method acting pioneer] Stanislavski, but I can't take myself seriously like that. I respect people who do it, of course. I just think I'm lucky to still be working at 73. You reach a point in life where you just think, "Show up, do your job, make sure the cheque's on the way," and that's it. I'm not hungry to do anything more, really.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• When I ask President Marcos for two million dollars, at worst he wants to know whether he should bring the money straight away or whether I can wait for a cheque in the post.

  Florencio Campomanes

  Two, Waiting, President

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• When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

  Rick Santelli

  Attitude, Government, Different

  "Rick Santelli: I'm proud to be a firebrand" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2010.

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• I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under John Major's Government, was there to break the fall. I cannot help feeling, therefore, that it would have been contemptible to scarper for the West Indies at the first sniff of a seven-figure royalty cheque. This, if you like, is my notion of patriotism.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fall, West Indies, Rocks

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• It's exotic for me to be given a script that's already written, and be given a pay cheque, and asked to dress up and play, and that's all.

  Tilda Swinton

  Play, Dresses, Exotic

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My father was from Aberdeen, and a more generous man you couldn't wish to meet. I have a gold watch that belonged to him. He sold it to me on his deathbed. I wrote him a cheque for it, post dated of course.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Father, Humor

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• Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.

  Bobby Fischer

  Book, Income, Royalty

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• The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.

  Frank Abagnale

  Giving, Identity, Information

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• The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’

  Dorothy Parker

  The New York Herald Tribune, December 12, 1932.

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• I get up early and open my emails, write cheques and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

  Martin Parr

  Writing, Phones, Up Early

  "My space". Interview with Edward Mostyn, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2008.

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• Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

  Tony Parsons

  Thinking, Years, Class

  "My Week: Tony Parsons". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.

  Steven Spielberg

  Careers, Directors, Hollywood

  "War Horse - Steven Spielberg interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.

  Babatunde Fashola

  Fixed, Contracts, Screening

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• One of my proudest achievements is that when an authoritative book about Hungarian literature came out about a decade ago, there was a little article about me which said I was a Hungarian writer but pretending not to be. Bearing in mind I can hardly write a cheque in Hungarian, I was delighted to be included in the pantheon of Hungarian writers.

  Tibor Fischer

  Book, Writing, Achievement

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