Glen Duncan Quotes

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

I think the most stressful time of my life was when I was in New York, and I didn't have money to pay my rent.

The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

There have definitely been more than a few moments in my life where I'm wondering where the next paycheck will come from and how I'm gonna pay rent.

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.

There is a high cost for low living.

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.

My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.

I started when I was 39 as a cabinet secretary, and so I feel like I have lived an experience in my life where I can relate to families that struggle, and are scraping by and scrounging.