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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I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
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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 realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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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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If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.
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Too often, we see violent criminals return to the streets they have previously terrorized, only to commit more violent crimes.
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The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.
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We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.
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In getting Under Armour started, like any business, I think, number one, you need a great idea.
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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.
