Keren Woodward Quotes
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It seems to me that most good protagonists are both clever and resourceful. They are intelligent and can fix things, both little and big. They can come up with inventive solutions others would never think of.
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If people want to compare us to the Shangri-Las, then that's all well and good. But those groups were put together. They were told what to sing, dressed up, neatly packaged. We're like the '80s version in that we're more outgoing, more involved in it.
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There is nothing worse than a spoilt brat.
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But you're not really emotionally mature in your 20s. Well, we weren't. You don't say anything, you just bottle it up and then it builds up.
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We were completely DIY and very opinionated. We weren't the type that sat back or do what we're told… We never listened to many people.
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The ‘80s don't seem to have gone away. Most weekends in the summer we're off doing a festival in front of 10,000 or 15,000 people with a load of other ‘80s acts. It was just such a great era for music, for individuals and characters. It just had a spirit.
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The amount of women we've met that say that we were an inspiration to them growing up, has always been one of the best things about being in the band.
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If I look back on my life, you can almost tell the story of it through pop songs. Romances as a teenager, your first kiss, first love, first heartbreak.
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Everyone we knew was forming a band. Boy George, Wham! Sade. But it wasn't a big deal, they were our friends. It wasn't like we were hanging out with pop stars.
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We've never been good at long-term plans.
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Women shouldn't have to apologise for their age or growing old. It is just inevitable.
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We were expected to smile and be flirty to everyone. But we acted more like a male rock band. We never mastered the niceties. We were more interested in having a good time.
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We've always been do-it-yourself. In that we've had complete control.
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I can't even compare ourselves with the Supremes. I adore the Supremes! I can't set myself up as comparison to people I'm in awe of.
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Back in the day we didn't really have time to be a live act because we were always on TV or doing live interviews. We were being flown all over the world.
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How we looked on TV was exactly how we looked during the day.
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I'm actually quite proud of the fact that we made a success of ourselves in a donkey jacket and DMs, without any thought to sexualising what we were doing.
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There are more important things in life than being thin, anyway men prefer women with a bit of meat.
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We never thought of ourselves as a girl band. We dressed like blokes.
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I was very aware as a young mum that I had to be there and not go off the rails. I would go clubbing, then come home and make breakfast for the baby.
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We had to pose with towels wrapped around us, holding rubber rings, that sort of thing. The turning point came when a photographer asked us to get on a fur rug and crawl like cats. We said no, because it was sexist and disrespectful.
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We're best at doing pop music - we're not good at doing down, depressing music.
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Finding out I was expecting a child was highly inconvenient for doing all the promotion for 'Venus.'
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We got a gay following around the time we started using camp dancers who were stripped to the waist in cycling shorts and aviators.