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- Nov 07, 2020
Copies Quotes
What millions of copies sold actually mean.
These quotes come from authors and game creators talking candidly about what drives huge sales numbers, and why raw copy counts don't tell the full story. Learn more in our Book quotes collection.
- Last Updated on Aug 02, 2026
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the power of the platforms is outstripping the size of the audience. We can't charge $150 for a game. And when the best-selling game of all time has sold only 20 million copies at $60, do the math!
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a book sells a few hundred thousand copies or a million copies, which is great, it's perfect for PassionFlix because we don't have the same overhead as some of the studios do to make these movies.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get a lot of mail from boys in detention centers, including one from a center where they only had a few copies of my novel. They had a deal with each other that they'd read a couple of chapters and then slide it under the door to the next guy. I think that's very cool.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Raoul' sold a respectable 700,000 copies without a hit single. It didn't take off. If you don't sell 8 million albums or 4 million albums again, everybody deems it a big failure.
- Behind
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Doors
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- Nov 07, 2020
I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?
- Small
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my movies are copies of Hollywood, some of them pretty trashy copies. All filmmakers copy from Hollywood.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody's unique. Everybody copies off of each other. Everybody wears the same type of stuff. Nobody's an individual anymore.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020