Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.

I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

I grew up in a few houses because my dad was a builder, so we used to build and sell quite a lot.

I think that's one of the biggest things people don't understand: a clean house will sell faster.

Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.

At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever.

There's no such thing as 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' There's only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell.'

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.

We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.

I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.

A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.

It does no good to be a conservative if you can't sell a conservative message in a general election.

In Mallrats, you pretty much don't see him sell any weed, really. I don't consider him a big dealer.

I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.

Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell them.

I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.

If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.

So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school - but I got caught.

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their work.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

We all need to become more customer-focused and recognize the power of marketing to sell more diamonds.

You don't sell the team short and say, 'We're just trying to make the playoffs,' or anything like that.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.

Obviously, I want to sell records, but I do it because I find it therapeutic. In music I can be myself.

On 'Sex and The City', when Carrie talked about money problems, I would always think, 'Sell your shoes!'

The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks.

No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.

I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

The ability to easily buy and sell Bitcoin has been a really key factor in accelerating Bitcoin adoption.

You are the only person who can sell you, so you do spend a lot of time in your job by yourself everyday.

I always say it's a shame picture books get such a bad rep. Illustrations are tough to sell older kids on!

We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.

The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they're like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC.

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.

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