Beau Willimon Quotes

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

It's good to be finally able to afford food for a change. It's good to move on from potatoes and tin soup.

If I hit the lotto, I would be nowhere near the road. But I got bills to pay.

I never grew up with money, and I never wanted a lot of material things.

My hope is that I hit it big with something, and then I'll have enough of a cushion to carve out time to write a book. That would be my passion project.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I used to listen to 'Ready to Die' around the time I dropped out of college. I was scrambling for work and money.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.

I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.

It's very, very hard to be generous and compassionate if you haven't got a dollar in you back pocket to pay for it, to actually pay for those services that people need.

Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have to get a real job on a sitcom or something, and have my zombie books to remind myself I was still a writer at heart. I never thought I could actually pay my bills and write what I wanted.

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains.

I don't feel like basketball is the only way to make a living.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.

Poe was plagued and haunted most of all by something pretty banal: poverty. Probably the most eccentric decision in life was to become a writer in an age when making a living at it was nearly impossible.

I've got to love the film, not the money. Because I know what it's like not to have money - you still survive.

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

Don't hold against me that I don't own - that I don't own a single stock or bond. Don't hold it - I have no savings accounts.