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"I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop."
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"When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us."
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"My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good."

"When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing."
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"I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff."

"Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post."

"The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about."

"And so with all things: names were vital and important."
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"To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now."

"This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records."

"Although we were The Spice Girls of 1984 in Europe, My work has never been widely promoted in the U.S."

"We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour."

"I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood."

"What can I tell you? I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S."
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