Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.
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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
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I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.
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There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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I've gone on streaks where I haven't shot the ball well here, but I was always making up for it in other areas, so it wasn't as big. It's just a part of the game. I got to do better with it.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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If I'm going to wind up playing left, I want to be the best left fielder in the game. I'll work to be that.
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You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.
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If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
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I would love to play a crazy Russian spy, run with a gun. That's something I would love to do.
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I don't have an endgame. My game is to take on any bad guys I see out there. And do the best I can until they put me under the carpet.
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Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.
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Each game we play, every game is a championship-game mindset.
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Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.
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I auditioned for 'Game of Thrones' seven times! Loads of times.
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Every game, we're going to go for it, so when we get into playoff time, it's not like, 'You've really got to ratchet it up. You've really got to do something different.' Then what have I been doing the whole time?
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I just think to be a manager you've got to live and breathe and have this incredible enthusiasm for football, the whole thing. And while I love the game, and it's been a large part of my life, it's not the only thing in my life.
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Can anyone create an enduring business on the Web, where it's easy to build new companies, and when survival depends on the whims of fickle users? The big lesson of 'Digg' may be simply this: if someone offers you a ridiculous amount of money for a company that wasn't that hard to build, don't think twice. Take the money and run.
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Nixon was always willing to be bipartisan, so there are a lot of surprises in the man.
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The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.
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The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.
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Always be yourself. There's only one you. You should embrace anything that you don't like about yourself because that's individual and that's you.
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It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.
