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You sounded like Dolly parton on helium."(After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A W...more

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You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.

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My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.

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My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

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I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons and I got quite bored. My teacher was ob...more

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I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people.

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For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing ...more

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I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I do...more

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I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.

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People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

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If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas...more

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It's sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his weapons, catapult and peashooter, will no longer pick on...more

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Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic hol...more

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During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the children I 'taught,' in upcountry Uganda, were de...more

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I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnos...more

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I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions,...more

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Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4 000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan Italy than to Vancouver.

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Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired you've had a headache since you arrived but you can't leave because...more

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There are other grounds for believing that gays and lesbians should be respected and protected from oppression: their right to privacy and freedom of ...more

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What's more, the kaleidoscopic blend of gender-variant and gender-typical traits that characterizes gay people is exactly what enables us to make our ...more

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When these flies were put together in all-male groups they formed long, moving chains resembling conga lines, with each male attempting (unsuccessfull...more

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So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the...more

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My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

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What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to h...more

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One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as...more

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My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

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The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked...more

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In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident gradu...more

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The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to li...more

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The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a costume drama out o...more