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In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.
It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.
History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.
On the road, we watch 'The Mighty Boosh.' We have so many copies, we have them in different country codes.
Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.
I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What good would that do?
We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed.
All my movies are copies of Hollywood, some of them pretty trashy copies. All filmmakers copy from Hollywood.
One of the more fantastic possibilities is that man will be able to make biological carbon copies of himself.
When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.
Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.
I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me!
Philip Glass once told me, "They can always copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you're going to do."
[when asked by his secretary if she should destroy all files that were over ten years old] Yes, but keep copies.
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.
I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.
I mean, when we put out our first album, it was 'Gosh, we really hope it sells 100,000 copies. That was the innocence.
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
I can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it.
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.
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.
I have lots of things that aren't so old that I value, such as a copy of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," which he signed for me.
Nobody's unique. Everybody copies off of each other. Everybody wears the same type of stuff. Nobody's an individual anymore.
I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from.
It's not about what hits Billboard or how many views you got on a video. It's about copies sold. It's about streams, you know?
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.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
My father was bigger than life, an entity and everyone expected us, as his offspring, to be saintettes, these little carbon copies.
We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.
The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders.
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.
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.
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.
Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them.
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.
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.
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.
Our first album sold a million copies. Because we had such a big hit on the first album, it's always like, 'You can't top the first album.'
Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.
All the elements in an advertisement are primarily designed to do one thing and one thing only: get you to read the first sentence of the copy.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's frightening.
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.
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.
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.
Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
I was like a wonder kid at Uptown. The first record I produced sold two million copies - and I'd only produced it because the producer didn't show up.