My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.
SIMON COWELLI want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.
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The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.
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Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
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I didn’t realise how important stupid people are in your life, because you ask yourself, what made stupid people so stupid? What made them the way they are?
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I’d say the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand…
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I think if you’re an unhappy person, you’re always going to be an unhappy person. You’re probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I’m being honest.
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I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern… I’m pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.
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As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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Most things in music go full circle eventually.
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Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
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I think the best singers in the world, historically, are American. Britain’s got its fair share, as well, but some of the greatest singers, ever, whether you’re talking about Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey or Aretha Franklin, are from the legacy here.
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Not everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
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I don’t want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that’s what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.
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I’ve had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual than toothpaste. It works. You do it once a year – who cares?
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It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
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I still put punctuation in my texts. If it’s an ‘I’, I make sure it’s a capital.
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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 don’t know what that audience are into and I don’t particularly like that kind of music.
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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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Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That’s harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who’ve got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.
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I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time…. I was born to be a dad.
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Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
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I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don’t have time for them. I can’t make phone calls and stuff. I just sit on my own for days.
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I’m a great believer in getting checked out because if you know you’re OK, you actually feel better; your mind plays a big part of it.
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I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.
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You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
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I’m obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that.
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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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