Elvis Duran Quotes
I love taking time with an interview. Time with an artist relaxes them; it makes them want to be there and answer all your questions.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
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To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.
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Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'
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Grace and remembrance be to you both.
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In 2007, several musicologists contacted me at about the same time, expressing interest in the work of the mysterious Muriel Herbert, a few of whose songs they had come across.
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Some divorcees turn their pain inward. They brood, and they grieve for a long time, always wondering if they could have done something differently to keep this from happening. They make every problem in their relationship into something they could have prevented.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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I think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a sound-bite politician for the nightly news.
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I love taking time with an interview. Time with an artist relaxes them; it makes them want to be there and answer all your questions.
