Paula Abdul Quotes
Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.
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I grew up in New York.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.
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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.
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A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.
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I don't really believe in evil at all.
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Now I would go to London's Pudding Lane on 2 September 1666 and put out that little fire. I'd love to investigate the histories of a few of the buildings that burned for Restoration Home.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own traveling brotherhood.
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People in my confirmation process, on the right and the left, really loved that idea of having someone who's going to be in meetings arguing on behalf of the dignity of people who sometimes aren't represented in meetings. But by the same token, they have somewhat unrealistic expectations that I can kind of make my own policy.
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If they cry for their parents, they are beaten severely, sometimes hanged upside down from trees and even branded or burned with cigarettes.
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I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.
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What I don't like is constructing a book that fits in with any kind of generic template, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
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Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.
