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" I like to say that it never rains on 'Lifestyles.' There is no bad news. It's a very up show. "
Robin Leach
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" The idea for 'Lifestyles' began to take shape in my mind as I became more and more frustrated with the type of celebrity interviews I was doing for television. "
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Television
More
Mind
" I know that people hate me. And I know I'm just a hack journalist and what we do on 'Lifestyles' isn't what you would call television brain surgery. "
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Hate
Know
Me
" It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich. "
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Finance
Rich
People
" I've known Emeril for more than 20 years from when I featured him on 'Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous' from his days at Commander's Palace in New Orleans and from when I helped start the Food Network where he subsequently hosted an amazing 2,000-plus shows. "
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Amazing
Famous
Food
" I have met some very strange people and some very strange cats - and I'm not talking about jazz greats. I'm talking about animals that people claim have come from outer space, and boy, they're weird! "
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Animals
People
Space
" I made my first million by the time I was 31 and promptly lost it when I got divorced. "
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Lost
Time
Million
" I am the most unlikely star in the world. "
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Unlikely
I Am
Star
" I don't follow English soccer because it's become a game for hooligans. "
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Because
Become
Soccer
" I'm a big baller. "
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Big
" When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer. "
Robin Leach
Me
People
Thinking
" Emeril is a one-in-a-million Renaissance man. In 2002, he established his foundation to support children's educational programs to inspire and mentor young people through culinary arts, school food and nutrition. "
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Man
Food
Children
" Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes. "
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Person
Very
Another
" We began our 'Luxe Life' and 'Vegas DeLuxe daily columns' not long after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and we've spent a decade bringing you showbiz stories and star scoops. I hope it continues for a long time to come because I honestly feel that all the late nights and around-the-clock hours to be first and fast keep me young. "
Robin Leach
Life
Time
Me
" I wanted no other job than to work in newspapers. I was fascinated by the process of collecting information, talking to people and having the story appear in a paper that would be delivered in your letterbox. "
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Work
Story
Process
" Back on Nov. 23, 1963, I sailed into Manhattan Harbor onboard the Queen Mary and landed with no job and contacts and just $135 in my pocket. My first lodging was in a rundown hotel for $27 a week with the bathroom down the end of a corridor of beds. "
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Job
Down
End
" I've never shied away from hard work. "
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Away
Work
Never
" Burnout comes easy in the high-pressure world of television, and when the opportunity arose to move to Las Vegas and bring my friends and star chefs to open their restaurants at the Venetian, I made the move here. "
Robin Leach
Opportunity
Vegas
World
" Florida is nice, but Texas is my favorite state. "
Robin Leach
Florida
Texas
Favorite
" I helped launch 'ET'... I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things. "
Robin Leach
Move On
See
Better
" No other entertainer in the world ever took the risks that Liberace took. "
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Took
Ever
Other
" I've always been a gypsy. "
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Gypsy
Always
Been
" Tatiana Alvarez, who also became a queen of the wheels of steel in L.A., has now sold her incredible cross-dressing, reverse 'Tootsie' story to Warner Bros. in Hollywood, and hotshot producers Mike Medavoy, Brian Medavoy and Erwin More have reunited to turn it into a movie. "
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Now
Queen
Steel
" The public's appetite for what sensible newspapers call 'personality journalism' and what I call gossip is insatiable. It will never, ever stop growing because everybody dreams. "
Robin Leach
Gossip
Dreams
Personality
" I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich. "
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Rich
Wrong
Think
" I try to tell the story, always. I do not want to be part of it. "
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Part
Want
Try
" In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine. "
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Food
Wine
Italy
" There is this image of a guy in a hot tub, drinking champagne with two buxom blondes. But that is not the real me. I am a father, and I am a grandfather, too. "
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Grandfather
Hot
Father
" I am a creator of TV shows. 'Lifestyle' ran for 14 years... that was pleasurable. We also had 'Runaway' for eight years. We did two years of a show called 'The Start of Something Big', and we did a network series called 'Fame, Fortune and Romance.' "
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Two
I Am
Show
" Robin Leach is a guy who, when he has the time, goes quietly to his house in Connecticut and sits looking into the fire with a good glass of red wine in his hand. And when I wake up in the morning, I wink at myself because I like me - I know who I am. "
Robin Leach
Time
Myself
Morning
" There are few celebrities that I don't know personally. And compared to the rich, most of the famous live in the poorhouse. It's much better to be rich than famous. "
Robin Leach
Rich
Better
Live