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• The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.

  Raymond Chandler

  Reading, Society, Literature

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.65, Grove Press

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• Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly exposed to all the blandishments of mass culture-even the churches which follow the hillbillies to the city often make use of the same "hard sell" that the advertisers and politicians do.

  David Riesman

  Education, Mass Culture, Cities

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.165, Transaction Publishers

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• I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.

  Ranulph Fiennes

  House, Agents, Goes On

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• Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.

  Burt Lancaster

  Want, Firsts, Ifs

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• One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.

  Diane Wakoski

  Book, Numbers, Long

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• I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?

  Rosie Perez

  Feelings, Magazines, I Am Woman

  "The Pressure To Take It Off". Interview with Mim Udovitch, www.nytimes.com. June 25, 2000.

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• I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

  Peter Gabriel

  Artist, Thinking, Want

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• It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?

  Terry Eagleton

  Diversity, Unity, Culture

  "Those in power are right to see multiculturalism as a threat" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2007.

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• I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• The image is where you have dinner at night, who you're seeing. It's what car you drive and how you dress. People in the industry sell that, and it creates a dream. There's nothing else.

  Elle Macpherson

  Dream, Night, People

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• Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Selling, Used

  "Guy Kawasaki: No 'Secret Sauce' for Tech Success". Interview with Jason Fell, www.entrepreneur.com. June 1, 2012.

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• Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years ago for 60 thousand dollars. I could sell it today for 600. The illusion has become real and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it.

  Oliver Stone

  Real, Years, Perception

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• The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.

  Casey Kasem

  Bible, Two, Stories

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• I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Nice, Trying, Use

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• Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.

  Darius Rucker

  People, Labels, Records

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don't sell out their friends.

  Sandra Bullock

  Integrity, Mouths, Bigger

  "Sandra Bullock to Lauer: On adoption". "The Today Show" with Matt Lauer, www.newsday.com.

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• Sometimes I wouldn't give an interview because I didn't have the time or something else was more important. So they come up with a story which I don't think is always true, but they have to sell papers.

  Martina Hingis

  Sports, Thinking, Giving

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• I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.

  Michael Enzi

  Used, Taxes, Discouraging

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• McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

  Dave Eggers

  Book, Design, Effort

  "Dave Eggers: 'We tend to look everywhere but the mirror'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

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• I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.

  Sara Blakely

  Rip, Cutting, Feet

  “The woman in control of America's bottom” by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2008.

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• If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.

  Norbert Leo Butz

  Play, Ideas, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal.

  Swizz Beatz

  Pieces, Artwork, Know How

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• Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.

  Aloe Blacc

  Art, Stars, Tired

  "Aloe Blacc: '50 Cent put me off rapping'" by Tom Ayres, www.digitalspy.com. June 5, 2011.

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• If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it.

  Arthur Boyd

  Gun, Use, Ifs

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

  Edward Burns

  Tough, Made, Honestly

  "Ed Burns, Lead Singer for the Indie-Rock Movies of Our Time". Interview with Matt Sullivan, www.esquire.com. December 22, 2011.

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