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I’ve learned to deal with stress much better now, things don’t bother me in the way that they once used to.

Simon Cowell

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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People Phones Stuff
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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Achievement Artist Made
I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence.
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Country Years Zero
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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Born Dad Son Thinking
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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Broken Shows Song Television
The only magazines I read are car magazines.
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Car Magazines Only
I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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Levels School Three
It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
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Buns Criticism Hamburgers
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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Country Legacy People Talking Thinking
At 20, you’re cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.
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Cocky Thinking World
The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.
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Hard Work People Work
You are a saucy little thing aren’t you?
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Little Things Littles
I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.
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Fancy Hate Spaghetti
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 Week.)
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Country Eight Idols Season
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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Botox Cares Who Years
As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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Actors Genius Thinking
Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.
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Boredom Equal Rules
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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Boss Salary Wanted
Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
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Flattery Nice Stranger
I’ve learned to deal with stress much better now, things don’t bother me in the way that they once used to.
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Country Learned People Stress Way
Most things in music go full circle eventually.
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Circles Full Circle
My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don’t.
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Advice Business Careers
I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there’s something about, I don’t know there’s something very special when you’ve signed an artist and that first record comes in and it’s a good record. It is an indescribable feeling.
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Artist Feelings Shows
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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Alternatives Country People Rocks Snow
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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Important People Stupid
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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Girl Kindness Zero
I’ve spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the very best security and I can assure you my homes are as safe as the Bank of England.
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Country Home People Safe

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