Commercial Quotes

“Sometimes I still feel that there are two of me: one clean, flawless picture, the other imperfect and cracked; one boy, one girl; one voice that speaks aloud and one that whispers in my ear; one publicly known to have been troubled but be on the mend, the other who has privately lost something to do with innocence and gained something to do with knowledge and adulthood that can never be undone. I feel sometimes there are things that tear me in two directions, that there are two sets of thoughts that grow side by side. But then I realize that I am whole, whatever that means and does not mean; I am complete without the need for additions or alteration.”
― Abigail Tarttelin, Golden Boy

“When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home, and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born from a beautiful struggle, today she is mostly a 'ratchet' bitch spitting nonsense from her pimp's mansion.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences”
― Piero Scaruffi

“Give yourself a great self-respect to know who you are then your confidence will shine on you”
― Rashedur Ryan Rahman

“It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired.”
― Angela Phillips

“Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.”
― Sara Sheridan

“In the Soviet Union you weren’t allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.”
― Kalle Lasn, Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - and Why We Must

“Depending on how you looked at it, Darren was our Mick Jagger (designated swaggering extrovert) to Simon's Keith Richards (quietly virtuosic, blatantly self-destructive). Or else Darren had been Paul McCartney (chirpily commercial) and Simon had been John Lennon (moody, introspective, possessed of quasi-mystical insights).”
― Austin Grossman, You

“I narrate the story but he dies off-stage between commercials. A washing machine ad later, we are dressed in our funereal best. We sniffle and indulge in product placement for Kleenex. The credits roll.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.”
― Sara Sheridan