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"After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather."
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"All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers."
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"Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in."
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"A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well."
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"I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next."
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"The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print."
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"Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors."
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"I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge."
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"But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them."
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"I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line."
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"David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology."
Work
"Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best."
Writing
"In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer."
Control
"Blue Movie was based on an idea that Stanley Kubrick had. Somebody came by one day with some porn footage."
Creativity
"Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party."
Party
"When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian."
Time
"The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish."
Writing
"The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on."
Film
"I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers."
Time
"It's frustrating not to have more control over your material."
Control
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