Pauline Matthews (Kiki Dee) Quotes
I've got my mother's acceptance of things and my dad's drive - not such a bad combination.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
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I wear clothes and sell products and ideas.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.
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I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.
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My mother always cultivated my imagination from the time I was very little.
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By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class Indian upbringing. We were never made to realise who we were or that my father and mother were huge stars - it was a very normal house, and I'd like my daughter to have the same thing.
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There was one point where my mother was dying of lung cancer, and a journalist dressed up as a nurse and got in the house to get a picture of her, dying of lung cancer and stuff like that, and then you realise the fame's not all it's cracked up to be.
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I don't like kissing on camera. It's bad enough to be caught kissing by your parents. But when you have a whole crew watching you, it's a little weird.
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I've got my mother's acceptance of things and my dad's drive - not such a bad combination.
