"The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes." ― Simon Cowell Topic(s): Death More From Simon Cowell "My attitude is, if someone’s going to criticize me, tell me to my face." More In Death "There’s been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn’t have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can’t count the ways a director’s vision is compromised."― Lili Taylor "Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair."― William Cowper "Life inspires more dread than death – it is life which is the great unknown."― Emile M. Cioran