Nigel Lythgoe Quotes

• Since I've been in the U.S. I've lost the back of my heart, 15 ft. of intestine and my marriage - and God, I miss my intestine.

  Nigel Lythgoe

  Heart, Missing, Lost

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• If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are democratizing a notoriously impossible process, pulling back the curtains on a consistently fascinating industry, and affording aspiring artists the chance of a lifetime.

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  Artist, People, Connections

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• And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It's someone who's protective. That's all.

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  Mom, Dad, Stage

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• That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.

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  Idols, People, Television

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• The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it.

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  Voting, Logic, Program

  "Viewers 'Idol'-ize This Saucy Search for a Superstar". USA Today, June 18, 2002.

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• I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.

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  Art, Drama, Believe

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• Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.

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  Inspirational, Heart, Eye

  "Nigel Lythgoe officially returning to ‘American Idol’" by Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. August 05, 2010.

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• In my day everything wasn't so PC.

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  "Nigel Lythgoe: A Man, A Plan, A Wildly Successful TV Show". Interview with Victoria Looseleaf, www.dancemagazine.com. August 1, 2007.

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• There's no question 'Amazing Race' is a beautifully produced show.

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  Race, Shows

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