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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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One ought to be 'Marxist' with the same naturalness with which one is 'Newtonian' in physics, or 'Pasteurian' in biology, considering that if facts determine new concepts, these new concepts will never divest themselves of that portion of truth possessed by the older concepts they have outdated.
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Hollywood is a very interesting place to deal with. And having been a theatre person, I was quite surprised by the slipperiness of some people in Holly-weird. There was a part of me that just said, 'If this is the way the game is played, I'm not sure I want to play it.'
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Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
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I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
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It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.
