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I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to him. I think it's not just me, but lots of others, family and friends, can still feel him around.
Petra Nemcova
Family
Me
Writing
Think
Others
Simon
Write
Never
Feel
Talk
Him
Around
Still
Diary
Lots
Friends
Family And Friends
Just
Used
Now
Without people like Dylan and the Beatles and people like Paul Simon, I think rock n' roll would have died out like Dixieland jazz.
Robert Hilburn
Beatles
People
Jazz
Think
Out
Would
Simon
Like
Without
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Roll
Died
Dylan
Paul
Paul Simon
Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed performing, she would sometimes ask members of her band to spank her before she went onstage, to distract her from her anxiety.
Scott Stossel
Anxiety
Sometimes
Distract
Before
Band
Stage
Seven
Collapsing
Abandoned
Members
Would
Nerves
Simon
Onstage
Resumed
Performing
She
Concert
Years
Pittsburgh
After
Ask
Her
I had another version of 'We Dance' that was kind of glam-rock. It was a little 'Taking Care of Business' mixed with Simon and Garfunkel. But on the album, I did it in a down-and-out way, like the Frogs or David Bowie or something - a little torch song thing.
Stephen Malkmus
Business
Song
Care
Dance
Way
Torch
Kind
Something
Simon
David
David Bowie
Had
Taking
Like
Bowie
Another
Mixed
Version
Did
Frogs
Little
Thing
Album
Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.
Tom Chapin
Beatles
Song
Simon
Alley
Songwriters
Wrote
Terrific
American
Tin
Form
Dylan
Paul
Paul Simon
Bob
Bob Dylan
Then
Sang
Whoever
Pan
Appreciated
I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'
Vicki Lawrence
Chapter
Gun
Neil
Simon
Annie
Stuff
Like
Doing
Get
Loved
Really
Your
Enjoyed
Two
I've followed Brenda Bowen as she's moved from Henry Holt to Scholastic to Simon and Schuster to Hyperion and to HarperCollins. I have complete confidence that Brenda always knows the right questions to ask. I'm not sure another editor would be able to do that.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
Confidence
Right Questions
Complete
Would
Would-Be
Able
Followed
Simon
Scholastic
She
Knows
Another
Sure
Always
Editor
Questions
Moved
Ask
Henry
Right
David Simon is a brilliant writer, brilliant at being able to take what is ordinary and make it extraordinary.
Wendell Pierce
Brilliant
Extraordinary
Able
Simon
David
Writer
Take
Make
Being
Ordinary
My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
Yancy Butler
Family
Theatre
Mother
Side
Broadway
Neil
General
Simon
General Manager
Manager
Grandfather
Production
Shows
When I was a kid, my father would read Neil Simon plays with me, when I was going to bed, as bedtime stories.
Zach Woods
Me
Father
Kid
Neil
Would
Simon
Read
Bed
Bedtime
Going
Stories
Plays
Suddenly, I was in a category with Barbara Striesand, Olivia Newton John, Donna Summer, Carley Simon - it was kind of neat for me.
Anne Murray
Me
Summer
Kind
John
Simon
Category
Barbara
Newton
Suddenly
Neat
Olivia
The first Christians were formed by the first Easter into a new community that transcended all other commitments, encompassing the tax collector Matthew, a lackey of the occupying Romans, and Simon the Zealot, an insurrectionist.
Richard Coles
First
Community
Other
Easter
Collector
Simon
New
Occupying
Were
Encompassing
Matthew
Commitments
Tax
Romans
Formed
Christians
You see, I read reviews of people like Paul Simon, and they don't talk about the fact that he's looking old or whether he is fashionable; they talk about the music, which is how it should be.
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Music
You
People
Old
Looking
See
About
Simon
Fact
He
Like
Talk
Read
How
Reviews
Whether
Which
Paul
Paul Simon
Should
Fashionable
You know there's this really strange mystique about Simon and Garfunkel, when they use the amazing mandolin and all the percussive stuff. It sometimes sounds very global.
KT Tunstall
You
Strange
Sometimes
Amazing
About
Simon
Mystique
Stuff
Global
Know
Sounds
Very
Mandolin
Really
Use
I will never forget walking out on a Saturday night with Simon Cowell and Sharon Osbourne, household names who were opinionated and full of confidence, and I was just this Irish guy.
Louis Walsh
Confidence
Will
Out
Guy
Simon
Never
Never Forget
Sharon
Names
Household
Opinionated
Were
Irish
Walking
Forget
Just
Full
Who
Saturday
Saturday Night
Night
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