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Elvis Presley Quote: 'People ask me where I got ...'

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Profession: Musician
Nationality: American
Birthday: January 8, 1935

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I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.
Victoria Beckham
Tags: People Me Always
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.
Billie Holiday
Tags: You Any Anything
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People ask me where I go to get away, and I say 'Home.'


Gretchen Wilson
Tags: Home People Me
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I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.


Bill Monroe
Tags: Music Out Want
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In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'


Jane Gardam
Tags: Want Thing Own
My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
Robert Plant
Tags: Just Until Anyone
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Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.


James Maslow
Tags: Me Love Got
When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.
Mark Cuban
Tags: Change People Me
England gave me a chance. It's a very individual country where people have a personal style; they don't all follow a trend. The subtlety and wit of England is incredible, and they are very creative.
Mario Testino
Tags: Chance People Me
I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody.
Rod Steiger
Tags: Chance Me Because
I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
Zac Efron
Tags: You Just Get
Billy Barnes signed me and got me my first role in an interracial love story filmed in Atlanta called 'Together For Days' with Clifton Davis. My mother thinks it was my best work. You cannot find a copy of it.
Lois Chiles
Tags: Work Best You
My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.
Marilyn Manson
Tags: Dad You Me
I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, 'No, it's for me.'
Chris Lilley
Tags: People Me Like
Right out of the University of California I had passed the bar, but Colorado was one of those places where anybody could come and nobody would ask what your background was or how long you had been here. So I took to the place with a liking.
Richard Lamm
Tags: You Out Had
Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.
David Ogilvy
Tags: Good You Just
On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.
David Cameron
Tags: People Some Other
The thing about darts is that you've got to shout. It's not like cricket where you can talk to Michael Atherton and ask him to analyse the bloody nuances. Darts does not have nuances. You've got to hurl yourself at it.
Sid Waddell
Tags: You Like About
There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it.
Dean Cain
Tags: Work You Me
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People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing.


Mike Posner
Tags: People Me Like