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Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.

Simon Cowell

There’s no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we’re happy; end of story.
SIMON COWELL

Married Needs Stories
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 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
Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
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Country Dresses Female People
I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.
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Break Broken Hearted Moving
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 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
Most things in music go full circle eventually.
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Circles Full Circle
I never knew how much love and pride I would feel.
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Feels Love Much Pride
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
You are a saucy little thing aren’t you?
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Little Things Littles
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
The only magazines I read are car magazines.
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Car Magazines Only
Not everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
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People Perfect Thinking
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
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
I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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Levels School Three
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
Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.
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Boredom Equal Rules
Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times, way too much, and it becomes a little bit obsessive.
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Ego Littles Much Times Too
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
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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Addiction Baths Sometimes Three
As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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Actors Genius Thinking
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
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
Good is not enough. You’ve got to be great.
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Enough Lesson Life Motivational
It’s not our intention to be mean. That’s just within us.
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Country Intention Mean People

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