Paula Abdul Quotes
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.
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They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack.
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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
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We have a choice, every single day that we wake up, of what we can put into the world, and I ask you to please choose love every single day.
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There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air.
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The music in my family has always been there; it's been quite an obvious trait that seems to have trickled down the bloodline.
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I'm happily single.
