Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
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I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.
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That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
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I experimented and explored ways to find my own niche in Nashville, and I was having trouble with it for a while because stylistically, I didn't feel like I necessarily fit in.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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You know what, I am not gonna lie, that Taylor Swift 'Trouble' song? I can't resist that song. Her melodies are very catchy.
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The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.
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Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.
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I got in trouble my whole life for having a big mouth.
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It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.
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There is more for women in terms of character roles now. Judi Dench and Maggie Smith have constantly changed over the years and challenged themselves with different roles. That's impressive.
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I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.
