#copies

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. ↗

— Reynolds Price

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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies. ↗

— Randy Bachman

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Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies. ↗

— Irving Berlin

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It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies. ↗

— John Carmack

#game #million #nice #sells

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor. ↗

— Steve Jobs

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I was really overwhelmed by the amount of roles that I got offered that were carbon copies of what I did in 'Up in the Air.' I got every offer for every ambitious, unfeeling practically robotic character. ↗

— Anna Kendrick

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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? ↗

— Richard Russo

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CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own. ↗

— Richard Stallman

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No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document. ↗

— Renata Adler

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