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Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, 'Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it's impossible because it's sold out.' It's really amazing.
Gustavo Dudamel

Amazing, Saying, Friends

But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day.
Neil Innes

Remember, Records, Nearly

I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.
Michael Connelly

Books, Hollywood, Kinds

I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.
Christoph Waltz

Art, Movies, Made

I have a following. Whenever I am on tour they come. It is always sold out.
Nina Hagen

Whenever, Tour, Following

Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.
Penelope Spheeris

Money, Studio, Print

I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums.
Ricky Skaggs

Hate, Negative, Matter

Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.
Mary Harris Jones

Today, Two, Child

We used to go and play shows in the south in front of two people and now every show we did was just great. The warm-ups, most of those weren't even advertised and most of them were sold out. I don't know what's going on, it's just so much different than it used to be.
Jon Crosby

Great, Different, Two

I sold my first screenplay six months before 'Glee,' but they had the option for a year and now it's back with me.
Dianna Agron

Before, Year, Months

Every gun sold should require a background check, period.
Gary Ackerman

Gun, Period, Background

I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses.
Anthony Michael Hall

Young, Whole, Idea

When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.
Julio Iglesias

Time, Tired, Long

I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.
Johnny Rivers

After, Soul, Off

For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.
Margaret Cavendish

Lord, Gave, Hopes

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.
Mickey Spillane

Books, Stuff, Mine

Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.
Zhang Ziyi

Movies, Wife, Done

We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.
Andy Taylor

Cool, Short, Listen

All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
Karl Philipp Moritz

Money, Two, Sometimes

I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form.
Kit Williams

Work, Find, Working

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.
Edwidge Danticat

Money, Revolution, America

Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.
Cynthia McKinney

Waiting, Rights, Achieve

Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency.
Yoshihiko Noda

Government, Sense, Public

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.
Jason Patric

Business, Problem, Happens

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.
Matthew Sweet

Music, Time, Waiting

I was a hostess, I sold shoes, but I don't function well in jobs that don't have to do with what I love. I have cleaned bathrooms in theaters, I have sold wine in theaters, I have sold tickets, because I will do anything, anything, to stay in this world.
Nina Arianda

Love, Wine, Shoes

In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.
Bonnie Tyler

Heart, Number, Million

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?
Frank Carson

Car, Heard, Engine

I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.
John Fowles

Best, America, English

The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening.
Brenda Blethyn

Strange, Since, Maybe

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