Pauline Matthews (Kiki Dee) Quotes

I had a cancer scare in the early '90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.

Pauline Matthews

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• It's better to do a film that works.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Film
  • Better
  • Works

• The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.

  

  Kate Klise
  • College
  • Surprise
  • Strive

• Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Art
  • History
  • Question

• It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Up
  • Time
  • Government

• One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • College
  • King
  • Students

• People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • First
  • Meeting

• 'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • World
  • Book
  • Alone

• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Trust

• I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Technology
  • Problem

• When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Trying
  • Reading
  • Sleep

• I don't weigh into politics.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Politics
  • Weigh

• Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • You
  • Listening

• I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.

  

  Raekwon
  • Business
  • History
  • Marketing

• I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Girl
  • I Can
  • Hopeless

• It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • You
  • Play

• All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Women
  • Business
  • Just

• The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.

  

  Wale
  • Want
  • Political
  • Internet

• I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the word 'obey' in the marriage service should be removed for a clear violation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, which says there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude within the United States.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Slavery
  • Gentlemen
  • Removed

• You can't put the Hollywood sign in a movie without paying them. That is a landmark in L.A. I'm sorry, remove it from our skyline, then. You know? How dare they. That should be public domain, right? But it's privately owned, and they enforce that. They sue people. If you see it in the movie, they've paid for that.

  

  Dax Shepard
  • People
  • Movie
  • Sorry

• I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There's this whole mythology that people bravely battle their cancer and then they become survivors. Well, the ones who don't survive may be just as brave, you know, just as courageous, wonderful people.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • May
  • Myself

• Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience

• I never took any vocal training.

  

  Marvin Hamlisch
  • Training

• I had a cancer scare in the early '90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.

  

  Pauline Matthews
  • Cancer