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Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.

Simon Cowell

Have I got a black book? Yes, it’s called a mobile phone. I do get offers. There is no shortage of people if you want to go on dates – working in TV, living in L.A., it is there if you want it.
SIMON COWELL

Book Country People Phones
I love producing shows. And so when you’re on a show where other people are making decisions you don’t necessarily agree with it, after a while you start to feel like a passenger.
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Decisions People Shows
Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson I thought, what am I doing this for? I don’t ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.’
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Jobs Lessons Want
It’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
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Conflict Interesting Personality
They understand what their market is and who they should be selling records to, and most importantly, they know the kind of artist that they want to be, but they have to do it themselves. You don’t want a 13-year-old singing some awful song from a musical.
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Artist Country People Song Understand Years
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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Country Firsts People Wants Years
The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
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Animals Stars
Sincerity is romantic. I don’t think you need gestures.
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Gestures Needs Thinking
If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I’m pleasant, but the parts when I’m obnoxious.
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Air Country Hours People Tape
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
Britain’s got talent, enormous talent, that’s very obvious.
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Britain Enormous Talent
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
As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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Actors Genius Thinking
What I would argue in my defence is that shows like Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.
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Arguing People Records
You didn’t beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
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Beats Country Crushed People

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