"I invented the thing in about two seconds. It just came to me. I spent the next two hours cutting up cornflake packets and making the squares, filling them in with colours. My husband and I formed a company the next day. Continuo went into shops on September 1st; six weeks later it was the UK's bestselling game. By Christmas, we'd sold 205,000 sets in the UK — today, it's in over fifty countries; it's now sold six million sets, which ain't bad. That includes its offspring. It's not quite so popular at the moment; it just seems to have slid downstairs at the moment. Don't worry, it'll come back; in fact so much so that I've just licensed two games to South Korea — and those two are Continuo and Duo"

"you’re “…able to reason with the intuitive mind of a child, yet retain acquired knowledge and high I.Q"

"Go away and find yourself a games agent; they know which companies want what, and they’ll present them for you"

"Back in 1973, a large lump of the school in which I taught detached itself and landed on my head. This put me into early retirement - and nearly killed me. Then, suddenly, on April I , 1982, apropos of nothing in particular, Continuo flashed into my mind. Such a simple concept. All players, regardless of age, could play together - or even play solo. My husband Alan and I formed a company, and five months later Continuo went on sale in the U.K., soon becoming Britain's top-selling game. Now, Continuo and its siblings have sold over six million sets around the world. A string of other successful games followed. Whilst I invented the games, Alan playtested them. The partnership worked very well as I proofread his bridge writing"

"Women in Cape Verde are very strong, and we have a fighting spirit."

"The fact that I sing about love doesn’t have anything to do with my emotional life. I think I didn’t have a husband because in Cape Verde, when you have a husband, you have a child, two children, three children. Then sometimes if the man wants, he just leaves you and you have to have another man to help you, because you cannot raise those children alone. It’s hard to live like that"

"That doesn’t happen to everybody, but it’s common in Cape Verde. That’s why in Cape Verde, women are always fighting for themselves and for their children"

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"In Cape Verde ... I used to sing for tourists and for the ships when they would come there"

"I was born in a poor country. I was poor, but I lived all my life with what I had. I didn’t spend more than I had. Cape Verde is not the only place where there are poor people"

"I’m just a simple person. I’m not hard to understand."

"Now I work, and I see the results of my work, so I have some money,” she says. “But I’m still the same person that I was before. I still have the same simple life. I still have the same friends"

"Life in the islands is not easy, because there are very few resources, and you could say that my life and life in the islands are related"

"They’re going to feel my message through my presence and my music"

"I wasn’t astonished by Europe and I was never that impressed by the speed and grandeur of modern America"

"There was no real progress,” she acknowledged in Pulse!. “I wasn’t making any money out of it, so I just stopped"

"I only regret my success has taken so long to achieve"

"Because I couldn’t find anyone to help me out in Cape Verde, I had to start recording in France in 1988"

"This was women’s work around the house, but I didn’t like it, so I came out when I was 13"

"I started singing in the neighborhood where I lived, just with my friends... It was just to amuse ourselves"

"Ageing is inevitable. Ageing gracefully is a gift from God. Challenges are imminent but succeeding is optional...Never quit, never give up. At the end of the day, be contempt with the fact that you gave life your best shot."

"Its fine to chastise me. It makes me a stronger person. I wasn't bothered at all. Do I look bleached? Some of them (the comments) were really ridiculous. I carry determination - a spirit that is not deterred. As a celeb, you give the room for bashing. People discuss you and doing this for ten years, I have a tough skin (sic)."

"Same with Becca, she was very loud and everywhere but that is not happening with her now. You have colleagues you started with, they are single so they will keep working and then, childbirth also slows you down since you can be off for a year and half."

"But I just want to let you know that my daughter and I have zero barriers. We have perfect communication! My father, though, was a firefighter. There was zero communication with us. He believed that you just grow up. Do you need nourishment or culture? No, you will grow up as is."

"I have a child of my own. If kids see me lying around doing nothing, they might wonder when they can be like me. This will set a bad example."

"As long as you have learned to enjoy your life, and you’re happy with both the effort you made and the reward you receive over that period, that’s good enough."

"I’ve done more than 100 movies, but I have to ask myself how many of those did I really like and how many did I do for the money? I don’t need to do it for the money any more so now I want to do the kinds of films that make me happy and that can help the industry as well."

"You can say I am investing in myself. I want to produce the best films and the best concerts for my audience, to win their respect for me. I want my supporters to be proud of my performance. I may receive less, but getting people’s respect is a high return."

"I always say that all problems happen due to miscommunication between people. That's the birthplace."

"I’m accustomed to being hardworking. It’s misleading to say I’m a model worker, but I guess it’s good to encourage young people."

"Other than knowing how to act, I have also learnt to be a better human being. I always wanted people to say I was a good actor or a good singer. When they did, I would always feel secretly proud of myself. That feeling is gone now."

"I’m a very lucky guy. Not a lot of people can have their lives so much in tandem with the changes around us. I have the ability and I work hard, but the same goes for a lot of other people. It’s a matter of being in the right place at the right time."

"In the past, I think I may have earned 70-something marks for my efforts but recently that has gone up to 80-something. Before, the most important things to me were fame and fortune, and security."

"I decided to go into show business because I liked drama and wrote a screenplay when I was in Form Two or Form Three. Initially, I aimed to be a director, but my teacher classified me as an actor, so he chose the career for me."

"Acting and singing are ways to communicate with those who grew up with me. I could not abandon my supporters just because I have earned enough money to quit."

"I don’t have a problem with money as I spend less than I earn."

"I think time has a great effect on the quality of your work. You can do 100 things and get 80 marks for your effort. If you want to get 100 marks, then maybe you won’t even be able to do 10 projects in a year."

"I’m ready for Hollywood, as long as Hollywood is ready for me."

"Money is not my priority. In fact, I think I am the lowest-paid artist in the city because I am willing to give up part of my payment to pay for production costs."

"If I get an award, it is wonderful, but if I don’t, it’s okay because I know how much effort I have put into something. That’s what you need to do every time you start any work – you need to make sure you do your very best and just be yourself. That’s more important."

"I don’t mind being so busy. Because I’m in both careers, acting and singing, it takes a lot of my time. I do prefer singing over acting, but really I love to do both."

"thumbThe emotions conveyed through your performance will be etched in our memories for years to come."

"he visuals of the song evoked a sense of inspiration and aspiration and these are the exact qualities I felt during your performance. The way you sang the song"

"My passion to live out every single dream I have ever had is what keeps me going. It is also nice to be seen."

"Everyone has their own perception of the word ‘success’. To you, success could mean hit tracks, to me success could mean being able to complete a full song for self or for another human being."

"My environment influenced me. The music I listened to influenced me. My mother influenced me."

"“I don’t pay attention to comments that don’t serve me,”"

"“In the past, I concerned myself with timing and I was always anxiously pleasing people. In that mindset, I gave up many times. Now I follow what gives me joy and I share it with the world and leave the rest""

"“I only concern myself with myself.”"