Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.
My favorite movies were 'Titanic,' 'James Bond' and 'Pretty Woman' - people smuggled in pirate copies from China.
I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in their reception rooms.
My father was bigger than life, an entity and everyone expected us, as his offspring, to be saintettes, these little carbon copies.
'The Squickerwonkers' was the story I wrote when I was on 'The Hobbit.' And I brought it to Comic-Con and sold out a thousand copies I had printed.
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.
I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from.
I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He made 20,000 copies, and we sold them all.
[when asked by his secretary if she should destroy all files that were over ten years old] Yes, but keep copies.
I mean, when we put out our first album, it was 'Gosh, we really hope it sells 100,000 copies. That was the innocence.
My first book was so horrible I have deleted all copies of it. Thankfully, it was before the Internet, so there are no lurking caches of it anywhere.
If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.
My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.
Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton.
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators.
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
When I put out the records, when I make a distribution deal, those distributors tell me who they sell it to and how many copies. So I want nothing less.
God makes originals not carbon copies. It's okay to be inspired by someone, but be bold enough to be yourself.
Whether it's a huge hit or sold five copies, as long artistically and creatively I can stand by what I did, then I'll feel successful.
If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.
In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.
The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.
Sometimes, I go to Barnes & Noble with the sole intention of moving all copies of the bible to the fiction section.
I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.
Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.
I don't care for brands. I'm more of a boutique shopper because the things I will find there are unique, and there won't be any copies.
I wish more people read hard copies of the newspaper and watched the evening news from start to finish.
Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.
I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said 'I'll just print another ten'.
I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.
Americans have got it so dinged into them that they are the most fortunate people on Earth, and that the rest of the world - the sooner it copies what America is like, the better.
My biggest frustration is the lack of scale in the music industry. The fact that no one has sold 100 million copies of an album is frustrating.
The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band
If I had written a book saying, 'Ladies, your life is terrible,' I would have sold three copies. It's always better to laugh people into recognition.
There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: 'What's your sign?' Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.
It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are really getting some place.
Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture.
In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between how architects draw, think, engage bylaws and constraints.
There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?
This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas.
Some of the scripts I hear are completely useless. Sometimes, they're copies of very bad Hollywood films.
Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.
History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.
I was given a chance to re-haul 'New Mutants' and take it from the dog of the 'X-Men' office to 1 million copies with its final issue.
In 2013, I was broke after making my first movie, 'Jason Nash is Married,' and I got on Vine hoping to sell a few copies.
What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.
We had sold a lot of copies of the 'Miami' album without being racked by some of the big distributors.
It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.
I just saw 'Tiny Furniture' and became so obsessed with it that Judd Apatow jokes that I'm the distributor of it. I was making copies and giving them out.
The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies.
I'm a big fan of David Sedaris; I love all his books and have them all on audio and e-reader, in addition to hard copies.
I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
One of the more fantastic possibilities is that man will be able to make biological carbon copies of himself.
We're taking requests from customers who are looking for certain used copies. We already found 18 to 20 Louis L'Amour books that were on a customer's request list.
We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed.
I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
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