Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.Elvis Costello
Quotes to Explore
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
Olivia Wilde -
Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
Taylor Sheridan -
I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.
Aaron Ciechanover -
I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.
Idris Elba -
You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
Malcolm McDowell
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
Taylor Sheridan -
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
Federico Fellini -
A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
Zig Ziglar -
I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
Nancy McKeon -
My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
F. Sionil Jose
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Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
Patricia Ireland -
I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
Iain Banks -
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
Daniel Barenboim -
My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
Aaron Koblin -
At some point, all comics have to go out and be retail salesmen doing door-to-door. And this idea of somebody who totally knows their craft having to get up for free in front of a crowd to work out some stuff they're thinking in their head, still, after as much success as you can get, is really interesting.
Ira Glass
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Remember you love writing. It wouldn't be worth it if you didn't. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back. Remember writing doesn't love you. It doesn't care. Nevertheless, it can behave with remarkable generosity. Speak well of it, encourage others, pass it on.
Alison Louise Kennedy -
Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.
Alfred Delp -
If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.
Kate Hudson -
I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.
Johnny Vegas -
The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
Jack Reed -
I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.
Elvis Costello