Pauline Matthews (Kiki Dee) Quotes
When I started out in this business, I really wanted to become iconic, but I'm glad that didn't happen. I like to do things like travel on public transport unnoticed.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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I actually like football a great deal.
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We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.
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Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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It seems like WikiLeaks has better information on Hillary Clinton than she does herself.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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Custom is second nature.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it. You don't think, 'I'm going to watch that comedy starring a woman,' you think, 'I'm going to watch that funny show.' They refuse to play the foils for men, or be reduced to the butt of every joke, and I love that about both of them.
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Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'
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When I started out in this business, I really wanted to become iconic, but I'm glad that didn't happen. I like to do things like travel on public transport unnoticed.
