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I don’t mind competition at all. I mean, the record business is the most competitive business in the world, probably. So I’m used to that. In a weird way, it kind of makes you work harder.

Simon Cowell

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
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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Competition Frustrated Mean
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
It’s personalities, it’s conflict, it’s all of these things that actually make performers interesting.
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Conflict Interesting Personality
I 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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Being Different People Want
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
I actually don’t understand a word Paula’s saying anymore. It’s like a new language.
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Country Hilarious Language People
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 like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.
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Fancy Hate Spaghetti
As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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Actors Genius Thinking
You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.
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Ships Singing Song
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
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
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.
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Book Country People Phones
Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
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Country Dresses Female People
It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
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Buns Criticism Hamburgers

I don’t mind competition at all. I mean, the record business is the most competitive business in the world, probably. So I’m used to that. In a weird way, it kind of makes you work harder.

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I don’t mind competition at all. I mean, the record business is the most competitive business in the world, probably. So I’m used to that. In a weird way, it kind of makes you work harder.

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