Joey Lauren Adams Quotes

Your team has to understand that coming into the ABA, you have to have your investments right and sponsorships and people ready to give you money so they can back you up.

A lot of people can raise money.

I know about raising money.

The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money.

I don't have a sponsor or come from an exotic country where I can bring tonnes of money.

My challenge is that because I am not self-funding... I'm going out leaning on the generosity of everyday folks.

Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we create. It's almost like being an architect: You can't be an architect and build whatever buildings you want to.

When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing way - a buck here, a buck there.

I used the principles of Kickstarter to make 'She's Gotta Have It.' We filmed that in 1985 to 1986. The final cost was $175,000. I didn't have that money. It was friends, grants, donations. We saved our bottles for the nickel deposit.

I never understood using Kickstarter for commercial purposes. If you want to raise money for commercial purposes, I think you should give someone a dividend. They make money, then you make money. It should be an investment, whereas I think Kickstarter's true purpose is raising money for things that are in and of themselves justifying.

I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.

Online fundraising is so important to the Democratic Party.

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

People pigeonhole me - I'm known for raising more money than any man alive.

My name can raise money on a small-budget film.

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

Usually with things, you go where you can find the financing to do it.

Campaign contributors are operating vicariously through the power of their purse rather than through the power of their ideas.

In a political contest, the use of some [money] is both right, and indispensable.

Money is the mother's milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother's milk of politics.

I'm not good at raising money. I don't like to raise money. It's been my experience that when I ask someone for money, it's not long before they return the favor.

Asking people for money is really different than asking people for their support.

Clubs shouldn't be counting on an owner just as a benefactor.

I didn't go on a campaign of developers asking, 'Please give me money.'

If you don't ask for money, people don't think you are a serious candidate.