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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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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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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There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.
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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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Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.
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The institution of the family has very few friends in Washington. There are lobbyists in Washington for every possible entity, from the possum-growers of America to every kind of crazy thing. There's somebody in Washington paid to advance the cause of that particular business, but there's not a lot of support for the family.
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Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
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For 'The Lobster Kings,' I listened to a lot of Johnny Cash. And it makes its way into the book.
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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.
