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" When you're making a reality show, you can't even plan a week ahead now. "
Simon Cowell
You
Now
Reality
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" For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant. "
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" The love I have for my ex-girlfriends will always be there, so I think that's true love. "
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" No one really has any job security anymore, including myself. "
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" As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius. "
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" 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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" When you get your first pay cheque, it's the best feeling in the world. "
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" People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love. "
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" I hated school, but I love work. "
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" I've always treated the music business as a business. "
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" I don't think I can do this anymore. "
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" I work out three or four times a week, I have Botox, take tons of vitamins and vitamin infusions - if you believe that these things work, you will feel better. "
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" If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right. "
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" I've never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I've got to tell you, if I had 10 Dylans in the final of 'American Idol,' we would not be getting 30 million viewers a week. I don't believe the Bob Dylans of this world would make 'American Idol 'a better show. "
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World
Believe
American
" When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me. "
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Someone
Today
Worry
" 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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Phone
Living
Book
" If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her... I like her. "
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American
Like
Her
" I was never given any hand-outs. I started at the bottom and was very good at finding people who knew more than me and learning from them. "
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Learning
Good
Finding
" If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention. "
Simon Cowell
Attention
You
Mouth
" If I was gay, why wouldn't I admit it? It wouldn't harm me. "
Simon Cowell
Why
Gay
Me
" My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in. "
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Work
Me
Best
" There was nothing I could - and wanted to - learn in school. It was just a complete waste of my time. "
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Nothing
School
Time
" Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing. "
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Testing
Audience
Front
" When I look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way. "
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Punk
Way
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" I don't like kids that are pushed into things by stage mums, but when I can see they are having a good time, they're excited and enjoying the process, then I think it's wrong to discriminate. "
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Time
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" If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning. "
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Your
Good
" The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes. "
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Time
Animal
Death
" 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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I Can
Little
Too Much
" If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she's the most boring singer in the world. "
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More
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" My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.' "
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