Royalty Quotes - Page 11

• I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

  Agatha Christie

  Believe, Book, Memorable

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• I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under John Major's Government, was there to break the fall. I cannot help feeling, therefore, that it would have been contemptible to scarper for the West Indies at the first sniff of a seven-figure royalty cheque. This, if you like, is my notion of patriotism.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fall, West Indies, Rocks

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• I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties.

  George Shearing

  Music, Tired, Years

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• We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Patents, Mystery

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• Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

  John Perry Barlow

  Musician, Tickets, Audience

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• Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Song, Years, Bob

  "Color of Money Book Club". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. January 29, 2009.

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• Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.

  Elliott Carter

  Talking, Europe, America

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• If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family.

  Douglas Brinkley

  United States, Argentina, Treated

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• In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.

  Ron Kind

  Government, Land, Oil

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• I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.

  Lucas Neff

  Country, Struggle, Epic

  "Raising Hope's Lucas Neff on starting stand-up and how his show apes The Simpsons". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. February 5, 2013.

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• A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

  Frank Ocean

  Past, Dukes, Complexes

  "Frank Ocean: On Channel Orange, Meeting Odd Future, and His Tumblr Letter". Interview with Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

  Jo Stafford

  Artist, Records, Pay

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• I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Rose

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• All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Girl, Parent, Insulting

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• This is the city that taught me how to write all of these cool songs. Yeah, you guys definitely need a royalty.

  Katy Perry

  Song, Writing, Nashville

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• Industry stakeholders have said to us, which we've heard loud and clear, as we move forward on the climate change discussions we need to do it with a clear eye on the fact that we are also having conversations around royalties and the two can't be separated.

  Rachel Notley

  Change, Moving, Eye

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• It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.

  Cat Stevens

  Reality, Support, Albums

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• The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Gossip, House, Royal

  Marthe Bibesco (1930). “Some royalties and a prime minister: portraits from life”

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• After being on 'Oprah' for a couple of months, I got my first royalty check for $1,478,392.17. I will never forget it. At the height of my career, I made $3.3 million. Unbelievable. From welfare in the projects to $3.3 million.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Couple, Careers, Height

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• But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

  C. S. Lewis

  Stories, London, Rooms

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• ...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones

  Carleton S. Coon

  Class, Long, Egyptian

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• I think we have reached a level in society - with Helen Mirren playing The Queen - when we're not surprised any more. We don't mention names. Yes, it's obvious by inference. But we don't mention names and the film is not up to point fingers at Royalty.

  David Suchet

  Queens, Thinking, Names

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

  Tony Parsons

  Thinking, Years, Class

  "My Week: Tony Parsons". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• Lafayette saw himself as the protector of royalty; they [the king and his family] considered him its gaoler.

  William Doyle

  Kings, Lafayette, Saws

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• I knew about the music. I got that part but I wanted to know the business, I wanted to know about royalties, how people got paid, producers and stuff like that so I read all those books like twice.

  Juicy J

  Book, People, Stuff

  Source: www.deathandtaxesmag.com

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