"I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold."

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"I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold."

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"It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do."

Derek Jacobi, British Actor

England, Television

"When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld."

Charles Lyell, British Lawyer

England,

"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent."

Simon Newcomb, Canadian Mathematician

England,

"I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been."

Edwin Starr, American Musician

England,

"In England, there are so many TV commercials with nudity in them, and there are so many TV programs that show nudity on a regular basis. It's becoming more of a norm."

Mark Roberts, American Actor

England, Nudity

"I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair."

Evan Thomas, American Journalist

England, Labor, Party, Republicans

"I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London."

Charles Keating, American Lawyer

England, London

"England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'."

Emo Philips, American Comedian

England,

"Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials."

Joseph Hume, Scottish Scientist

England,

"While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well."

Paul Harris, American Entertainer

England, Liberty, Religious, states

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Control

"It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo."

Thought

"Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star."

Being

"I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy."

Being

"Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists."

Death

"When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do."

Money

"It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities."

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"It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do."

"When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld."

"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent."

"I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been."

"In England, there are so many TV commercials with nudity in them, and there are so many TV programs that show nudity on a regular basis. It's becoming more of a norm."

"I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London."

"England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'."

"Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials."

"While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well."

Explore more quotes by Alison Moyet

"The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created."

"It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo."

"Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star."

"When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going."

"When you have kids, it limits you. That was a choice I made."

"There are a lot of people who can now see me as an artist for the first time."

"I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy."

"Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists."

"When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do."

"It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities."