Pauline Matthews (Kiki Dee) Quotes
Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work defines who I am.
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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I wasn't like those girls who give birth and are back on the runway. It took me probably six months to gain 45 pounds and I would say it took me double that time to lose it.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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I love working with women.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
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I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.
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I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
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I know the Hall of Fame is the more sought-after thing. But I'm getting a bigger charge out of my uniform number being put away. Everything I worked hard for and wished for came true.
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My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.
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Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.
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Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work defines who I am.
