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What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.
Om Puri
Films
Lot
Western
Lacks
Scripts
Bollywood
Copies
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.
Padgett Powell
Best
Day
You
Book
Job
Write
Day Job
Got
Accidental
Sell
Very
Going
Might
Copies
Career
Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
People
Down
Books
Those
Thousand
Some
Online
Having
Most
Obviously
Make
Make A Difference
Sort
Makes
Blog
Sales
Sell
Author
Moderately
Just
Difference
Public
Modest
Popular
Even
Profile
Level
Presence
Copies
I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.
Penelope Spheeris
Market
Once
Out
Picked
Without
Up
Walked
Decline
Flea
Paying
Actually
Copies
The 'Frampton' album sold better than all of the other solo records that I'd had, put together. It was over 300,000 copies, so that was a good signal that we were poised for my first gold record.
Peter Frampton
Good
Together
Better
First
Other
Sold
Signal
Solo
Record
Records
Poised
Had
Put
Over
Were
Than
Gold
Copies
Album
Nobody's unique. Everybody copies off of each other. Everybody wears the same type of stuff. Nobody's an individual anymore.
Prodigy
Other
Everybody
Type
Wears
Individual
Nobody
Stuff
Off
Same
Anymore
Unique
Each
Copies
My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.
Randy Bachman
Young
Neil
Neil Young
Songs
Cheap
Like
Copies
No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.
Renata Adler
Secret
Destroys
Only
No-One
Document
Person
Ever
Copies
Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.
Richard Preston
Space
Enormous
Trees
Out
Propensity
Something
Small
Area
Put
Limbs
Because
Surface
Redwood
Upward
Burst
Copies
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.
Rob Liefeld
Dog
Final
Given
Take
New
Issue
Office
Million
Copies
Chance
'Youngblood' #1 was my first brush with Internet bashing. Message boards were just emerging, but the criticism was drowned out by millions of copies flying off shelves.
Rob Liefeld
Internet
Criticism
First
Flying
Out
Emerging
Brush
Drowned
Message
Shelves
Were
Off
Just
Boards
Copies
Millions
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.
Robert Benchley
Other
Those
More
Hospital
Been
Left
Than
Author
Authorities
Departing
Any
Behind
Patients
Works
Copies
Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
Sam Kean
Time
You
Matter
Example
Become
Every
Other
Every Time
Benign
Out
Bad
Gene
Wins
Dry
Sticky
Does
Dominance
Dominant
Itself
Wet
Trait
Traits
Whereas
Require
Noticeable
Inherit
Expresses
Copies
Copy
Two
All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.
Sam Kean
Parents
Few
Every
Other
Those
Mutations
Born
Gene
Fact
Could
Pick
Well
Up
Human
In Fact
Human Beings
Beings
Slack
Lethal
Dozens
Copies
Two
Musicians make up for the copies of their songs that get pirated by performing live. I don't think there will be as many people showing up to hear me read as to hear Beyonce sing. We need to make sure piracy is dealt with effectively.
Scott Turow
Me
Musicians
People
Will
Live
Think
Songs
Performing
Beyonce
Sing
Make
Read
Make Up
Sure
Dealt
Hear
Effectively
Up
Piracy
Get
Many
Showing
Showing Up
Copies
Need
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.
Sean Combs
First
Sold
Kid
Record
Only
Like
Because
Up
Wonder
Produced
Producer
Show
Million
Copies
Two
I do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important - it's important to be able to keep people from making verbatim copies of a particular creation that could somehow hurt the creator.
Shepard Fairey
Property
Hurt
People
Important
Creation
Think
Able
Somehow
Could
Particular
Making
Intellectual
Intellectual Property
Creator
Keep
Copies
You know, if a band on a label sold a few hundred thousand copies of their record these days, they wouldn't make any money. But if a band can pump out 10 million copies of a record for free, and 50,000 of those fans come to the band's website to watch pay-per-view videos or buy a t-shirt, that's roughly $10 million in revenue per year.
Tom DeLonge
Website
Buy
You
Money
Fans
Videos
Free
Year
Band
Few
Pump
Sold
Hundred
Those
Out
Thousand
Record
Per
Days
Come
Know
Make
Revenue
Label
Any
Roughly
Million
Copies
Watch
I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.
Tom Glazer
Gave
Collection
Only
Poetry
Glad
Had
Written
Over
Edition
Years
Friends
Privately
Did
Expensive
Which
Special
Serious
Ridiculously
Published
Copies
You get early inoculation against the idea of success if you're a poet. When I published my first collection of sonnets, I sold about five copies; now kids study them for A level. Wanting to be successful in that other world of money or fame is not interesting. Poetry isn't like that, and it never has been.
Tony Harrison
Success
You
World
Money
Poet
First
Other
Sold
Kids
Has-Been
Collection
About
Poetry
Never
Study
Idea
Like
Been
Fame
Five
Get
Wanting
Against
Interesting
Them
Successful
Now
Published
Level
Copies
Early
Unless any book is selling 30 million copies, like 'Fifty Shades of Grey' did, the big studios are not going to make movies out of them because the cost is too high.
Tosca Musk
Book
Big
Too
Unless
Out
High
Shades
Cost
Studios
Like
Make
Because
Selling
Did
Any
Going
Grey
Movies
Them
Fifty
Million
Copies
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.
Troy Carter
Music
Frustration
Music Industry
Sold
Scale
Fact
No-One
Industry
Lack
Biggest
Frustrating
Million
Copies
Album
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.
Wendi McLendon-Covey
Love
Big
Addition
Books
David
Audio
Big Fan
His
Fan
Them
Hard
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.
Wilbur Smith
Time
Me
Every
Every Time
Books
Paperback
About
Gives
Sells
Gold
Them
Million
Copies
Pan
My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then for a fee have them produce in a minute or two a beautiful finished copy in a dust jacket that you would pay for and take home.
William Gibson
Beautiful
Home
You
Book
Finished
Dust
Pay
Every
Dream
Would
Would-Be
Able
Minute
Examine
Scenario
Could
Take
Fee
Print
Go
Offer
Jacket
In Print
Them
Produce
Then
Copies
Copy
Two
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.
Zadie Smith
Books
Like
House
Around
Go
Any
Flat
Them
Keep
Mum
Copies
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