I always and strictly tell Nintendo employees never to use the term ‘success’ to describe our own performance.
I am highly variable in my devotion. From a doctrinal point of view or a dogmatic point of view or a strictly Catholic adherent point of view, I’m first to say that I talk a good game, but I don’t know how good I am about it in practice.
I missed out on the crash course that everyone else gets on ‘Strictly’ on every dance form.
Whatever fame or success we have right now came strictly from us playing. As long as we focus on music and not trying to be stars, I think we’ll be okay.
We have an older following with ‘Hairy Bikers,’ but ‘Strictly’ crosses all generations.
Basically, I come to Washington a couple of times a year, sort of on a strictly business basis: talk to my counterparts at the Federal Trade Commission, of the DOJ, give an occasional talk, very often in a lawyer or academic environment.
From a strictly business perspective, it’s like, ‘Even if you leave Eric alone, he’ll do stuff. He puts his own album together, he gets his own gigs, he does everything on TV. Let him be, he’s fine.’
‘New Jack City’ and ‘Boyz ‘N the Hood’ are realities, but movies like ‘Strictly Business’ are realities, too.
Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don’t steal. Don’t lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.
Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I’m saying it’s already been done because I lived it.
Strictly’ is so positive, we have so much fun doing a show like ‘Strictly,’ you don’t have to worry.
‘Strictly’ is definitely life-changing, and I hope it can open another pathway for me, career-wise. Maybe something a bit more musical.
I suddenly received a call from my agent offering me the chance to do ‘Strictly’ and I had to make the decision within an hour or two. I was doing a different job towards the end of the year so I had to change my plans, but it was a no-brainer.
The hardest thing about ‘Strictly’ is having to sit still for so long; it just about kills me.
I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don’t use a rapper or a DJ to give it the hip-hop style; it’s strictly the band that makes that music, which is a lot harder to do.
I never see Oti! I see her on the dance floor, I see her shortly at the after party but that’s it. In the week she’s doing her ‘Strictly’ zoom and I hardly ever see her.
I’m just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it’s random, they don’t see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.
Years ago my fans consisted almost strictly of adults.
The ‘Strictly’ experience is really like no other – the training and work that goes into it is immense.
Everybody has the Tupac that they admire. Certain people love the hip-hop person, the rapper. Strictly just the rapper. A lot of people, the newfound Tupac fans… they’re into Death Row-era Tupac. But that was only nine months!
I organise my work in the form of a daily diary. Each chapter is strictly chronological but is also monothematic – say, a war, a set of peace negotiations, a joust.
I’m strictly a quarterback.
There’s something about ‘Strictly Come Dancing.’ Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It’s lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there’s nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism.
‘Strictly’ was my first job in TV ever.
One of the most heartening phenomena in today’s Britain is the great diversity of the modern nerd – the nerd is out and proud, and while she may love ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ merchandise more than is strictly warranted, she is in every way to be cherished as an exemplar of cosmopolitanism and tolerance.
If you are opposed to immigration or support strictly punitive immigration measures, you cannot even start a conversation about other issues with most Latino voters.
I direct as many shows as I can fit in between ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ and other performance stuff.
Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.
When I started in the comic book business, ‘Art Of’ books were strictly the provenance of the greats, like Rembrandt and Da Vinci. But times change, and so do attitudes. Now the comic is considered an art form, and I hope ‘A Life in Words and Pictures’ contributes a little to that art form’s history.
I don’t get grumpy at a ‘Strictly’ level, you understand. We’re just making a television show – the person I’m dancing with can’t dance; they’re doing their best, and we’re not going to win the World Championships.
Strictly’ has evolved – there are such beautiful stories within each dance. We’re not doing a ballroom and Latin competition, it’s an entertainment show.
I get asked to do panel shows, and reality stuff, like getting in a cage with a shark. I got asked to do a ‘Strictly’ special, but it’s not my bag. If I’m being interviewed, that’s OK, but anything else fills me with dread.
Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.
I’ve come to realise that being on ‘Strictly’ is like being in another theatre company and performing a live production.
I absolutely love watching ‘Strictly’ every weekend and I can’t believe that I’m getting the chance to be on this series.
I couldn’t shoot with both hands until I was a junior in college. I was strictly right-handed until then.
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
I’ve been offered all the usual, ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ and the like, but the one thing I know is that for me to be good, I’ve got to absolutely love doing something. And you can’t dance the foxtrot half-hearted.
Ever since I was a presenter on CBBC and used to see the ‘Strictly’ judges walking around Television Centre, I have wanted to be on the show.
Since being involved in ‘Strictly Come Dancing,’ my life has changed completely. I can’t walk down the street without women throwing themselves at me, I usually wouldn’t mind, but they are of a certain age. Hopefully, after this series, they will bring their daughters!
I think, like for me ‘Strictly’ was a big thing that I’d wanted to do for years and I’ve done that now and now I’m like ‘okay, what should I do?’
There’s no fun in relationships. OK – that’s not strictly true. I will agree that the first bit can be not totally unpleasant. There’s the initial meeting and the heart quickening and the stomach-churning excitement of it all.
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
I always considered myself a songwriter, but I didn’t move to New York with plans of doing that; it just sort of happened. Everyone thinks that I moved to New York strictly to play music, but I totally just happened to fall into playing with Woods, and it all got started from there. I just went to New York to hang out.
From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.
I wanted to work strictly as a freelance actor, and that’s the way it turned out.
Even when someone fails, there’s never an underlying nastiness or cruelty. We’re an affectionate show and we’re not poking fun at anyone. Strictly’ is feel-good television at its finest.
At school people found it quite funny that I did ballroom, but I recently went to my school reunion and all they wanted to talk about was ballroom and ‘Strictly.’
All my songs usually borrow from my own life but pull from fantasy or other people’s stories that you hear, or something you read. It’s fun as a writer to pull from all those different places, and to connect them. But also, I don’t have an interesting enough life to strictly pull from that.
Kate Middleton has no blue blood coursing through her veins. Her father, Michael, is self-made, and he and his wife have been very successful with their party business, but they are and always will be strictly middle class.
Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.
I’ve been asked by ‘Big Brother,’ ‘I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!,’ ‘Strictly’ and ‘Dancing on Ice,’ but it’s not for me.
I’m the sort of person – for example coming off ‘Strictly’ – I make decisions, then I just deal with them and I go with them 100 per cent.
I would go into the Jungle if I wasn’t hosting it or I’d like to do ‘MasterChef.’ But ‘Strictly?’ God, no!
I must be the only person in ‘Strictly’ history who’s actually put on weight during rehearsals.
