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For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Why, Write, Asked

I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.
Steve Martin

Writing, Hard, Fire

For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
Xenophon

Beauty, Done, Horse

I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.
Adele

Together, Wanted, Child

Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!
Joni Mitchell

Words, Started, Bar

Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.
Paula Abdul

Him, Friends, Play

I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.
Paul Simon

Live, Act, Studio

One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.
Paul Simon

Criticism, Actually, Took

I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.
Leona Lewis

Famous, Friends, Except

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster.
Marlee Matlin

Children, Writing, Second

I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.
Paula Abdul

Character, Working, Until

Simon would not want to audition in front of Simon.
Paula Abdul

Front, Audition

There is love there. And then there's times when I can't even stomach Simon. You don't have to sit next to him. That's all I have to say.
Paula Abdul

Love, Him, Times

Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing.
Paula Abdul

Crazy, Arguing, Drives

I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks.
Wentworth Miller

Money, Grateful, American

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.
Carly Simon

Sister, Started, Singing

I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.
Clay Aiken

Music, Show, Degree

I can't touch Simon anymore.
Randy Jackson

Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records.
Duncan Sheik

British, Records, Wood

When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.
Daniel Tammet

Year, Finally, Achieved

Simon is cool. You know, it's different if you ever see him around his mom. He acts totally different.
Ruben Studdard

I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
Candace Bushnell

Children, Book, Short

I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.
Charles Kennedy

Music, Hate, Mean

By the time we went to Doctor Simon I think Barney had been totally disabled for at least six months.
Betty Hill

Time, Doctor, Months

I love Soundgarden, I love Rage Against the Machine, Simon & Garfunkel.
Lee DeWyze

Love, Against, Rage

I've actually published two compilations, if only barely. Hire a private detective and possibly you'll be able to locate them. One was called 'Violent Screen,' and the other 'Now Playing at the Valencia.' Bantam and Simon and Schuster.
Stephen Hunter

Two, Able, Playing

You know, Simon he's an artist representative, but Randy and Paula actually were in the industry as artists so they had, you know, the information that they offered to us from their aspect.
Ruben Studdard

Artist, Actually, Artists

I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'
Jacki Weaver

Done, America, American

I've never believed that 'Idol' as a franchise is beholden to any individual because everybody said it would die the minute Simon Cowell left, and it hasn't.
Nigel Lythgoe

Die, Said, Everybody

Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.
Nigel Lythgoe

Heart, Eyes, Working

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