Simon Cowell Quotes

Sometimes when you have a record out, you think you're going to go in at No. 1 but you go in at No. 8. So your second record has to be better. That's how I treat it.

Simon Cowell

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TreatThinkBetterYouGoSometimes

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John D. Rockefeller

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I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.

Amber Heard

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I have the foundation to write, and then I go back and do research, and some of that might influence the recrafting of certain scenes.

Amor Towles

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Let's just cut a live record with three microphones in four days and talk about lizards and aliens. If I had taken that idea to even an independent label, I don't see a label out there that would've said, 'Oh yeah, that sounds great. We know how to market this.'

Sturgill Simpson

LiveGreatKnowSaidThreeTalk

When I was a teenager, I continued to visit imaginary places by spending all my free time at our local community theater. Whether I acted in a play or worked backstage, the world of Tennessee Williams or Shakespeare always seemed more real to me than the dreary life of high school.

Mary Pope Osborne

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'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was a huge influence on me as a kid. It looked like a really fun job.

Mike Scully

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What was the name of that dog on 'Rin Tin Tin'?

Mickey Rivers

DogNameTin

For a book publisher, there is hardly a more dangerous category than that of celebrity autobiography. Forget who it's by, most books of this kind not only fail but fail big, since they are invariably expensive.

Michael Korda

BookDangerousForgetKindCelebrity

What basically happens is that when a company becomes great, and I'm being a bit rude here, people think they're some kind of genius. So now we can move into all sorts of other businesses because the net bottom line is, it's because we're just geniuses. They become overconfident and expand too far.

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

GreatPeopleThinkGeniusNowKind

Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

Diane Cilento

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In five years, I had done 13 films, which I think broke Elvis's record.

Diane Lane

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It would indeed be fortunate for Mexico if a new era of PRI presidencies were a sign of healthy rotation in power rather than a regrettable step backwards.

Denise Dresser

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