Pauline Matthews (Kiki Dee) Quotes
We had idyllic summer holidays, building sandcastles with my father on the beach at Bridlington. It might sound strange, but I think that secure cocoon of familial love was so nourishing, it gave me the strength to live life on my own.
Quotes to Explore
-
Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
-
I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
-
I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
-
I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
-
It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
-
Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
-
I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
-
If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
-
Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
-
When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
-
My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
-
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
-
Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.
-
Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.
-
If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
-
Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
-
I don't read books.
-
The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.
-
Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
-
While Wall Street firms typically underwrite offerings in teams, the lead underwriter, or manager, of the offering has primary responsibility for selling the offering and reaps much of the fees and profit.
-
I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.
-
I pray that we will treat each and every one of our Heavenly Father's children lovingly, tenderly, and individually, as He would have us treat them. I also pray that we will always be mindful of the power each one of us has to make a difference and to influence the world in which we live.
-
Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
-
We had idyllic summer holidays, building sandcastles with my father on the beach at Bridlington. It might sound strange, but I think that secure cocoon of familial love was so nourishing, it gave me the strength to live life on my own.
