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• Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.

  Dan Poynter

  Book, Looks, Want

  Dan Poynter (2003). “The self-publishing manual: how to write, print, and sell your own book”, Para Publishing

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• I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.

  Paul McCartney

  Looks, Records, Figures

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• My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Church, My Family, Personal Time

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• A cat may look at a king.

  John Heywood

  Kings, Cat, Looks

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• The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

  Mark Millar

  Book, Two, Pay

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• Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.

  Chris Patten

  Childhood, Able, Deprivation

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• I do not want and will not take a royalty on any record I record. I think paying a royalty to a producer or engineer is ethically indefensible. The band write the songs. The band play the music. It's the band's fans who buy the records. The band is responsible for whether it's a great record or a horrible record. Royalties belong to the band. I would like to be paid like a plumber. I do the job and you pay me what it's worth.

  Steve Albini

  Song, Jobs, Writing

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• Angels, demons, sex. Heaven, hell, war. Blood and royalty, history and magic, fire and ice. And a story you cannot put down. This is fantasy at its best.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  Sex, War, Angel

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• If you imitate someone, you owe them a royalty check. If you emulate them, you don't. There's a big difference. Check your lawyer.

  Stephen Colbert

  Differences, Lawyer, Checks

  "Stephen Colbert Enters the No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2007.

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• But just as he knew the sun was obliged to rise each morning in the east, no matter how much a western arisal might have pleased it, so he knew that Buttercup was obliged to spend her love on him. Gold was inviting, and so was royalty, but they could not match the fever in his heart, and sooner or later she would have to catch it. She had less choice than the sun.

  William Goldman

  Morning, Heart, Choices

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• Dallas Green is basically Canadian royalty.

  Sara Quin

  Dallas, Green

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• The Web took off in all its glory because it was a royalty-free infrastructure . . . When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going to end in the U.S.A. If we had a situation in which the U.S. had serious flaws in its Net Neutrality, and Europe did have Net Neutrality, and I were trying to start a company, then I would be very tempted to move.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Moving, Europe, People

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• 2001 King of the Ring? I really like the sound of that! That REEKS OF ROYALTY! So begins the ERA OF AWESOMENESS!

  Edge

  Kings, Wwe, Sound

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• The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.

  Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.

  Dream, Jobs, Editors

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• The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Government Lies, Political, Deceit

  Glenn Greenwald (2007). “A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency”, p.119, Crown

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• Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.

  Frank Herbert

  Government, Class, Aristocracy

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.198, Penguin

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• The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.

  Edward Abbey

  Cost Of Living, Air, Rising

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

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