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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Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.
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The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says "yes" to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says "Maybe," and in the great majority of cases simply "No." If an experiment agrees with a theory it means for the latter "Maybe," and if it does not agree it means "No." Probably every theory will some day experience its "No" - most theories, soon after conception.
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You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.
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A couple must agree on the following topics: 1) Do they want kids? 2) Do they want a dog? 3) Do they want sex? 4) Do they want sleep? (If they answer yes to 3 and 4, then they must answer no to 1.) And finally, 5) Who mixes the cocktails before they both don the sexy rubber gloves and clean the toilet?
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He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue of good.
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All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced from his actions-falls into the domain of history.
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I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.
