Leandra Medine Quotes

It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.

I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it.

Isn't it ironic that pay, perks, and benefits all cost your company at the bottom line, but authentic recognition, especially when it's most unexpected, costs very little and gives the most impressive return on investment?

In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

I'd be a fool to be in this for the money.

I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.

If the award comes with a check, then I want that award. But if it doesn't come with a check, then I'm not that interested. I'd much rather join NASCAR and get a trophy and a check.

I get paid to act. I've never acted free for anybody and I'd rather be rewarded than awarded.

Any fighter, at the end of the day, that says it's not about the money is ridiculous. We wouldn't be training this hard, putting our bodies on the line, and torturing our bodies if there wasn't a payday at the end of the day.

The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can't charge it.

Who knows where the talent goes? Sometimes it goes where the money is. Sometimes I think writers are really interested in the glory.

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.

I expect to get paid if I do something.

Where's the great pay? Where's the travel? Where's the Winnebago, Goddamnit!

Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song.

My nearest and dearest have always been very careful. I've never had to send Christmas present back yet.

What did I want with prestige? The British Open paid the winner $600 in American money. A man would have to be two hundred years old at that rate to retire from golf.

A bag of apples, a pot of homemade jam, a scribbled note, a bunch of golden flowers, a coloured pebble, a box of seedlings, an empty scent bottle for the children. . . . Who needs diamonds and van-delivered bouquets?

You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down.

I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.

Have you thanked a front-line employee for carrying around a great attitude ... today?

If I gave you now, $10 as a gift, how happy would you be? Would you be happy, is the marginal $10, the best use of $10 you can use? Of course not. If I have you a CD, you know exactly what you are getting and you will have a value for it. So, money has lots of problems with it.

I love when people walk into my house and start grinning: "This is too much - this is so you!" Why give people brown cardboard when you can give them embroidered, crystal-flecked organza?