Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
When you're working with the same band you kind of know their style inside out, and even when you've been working for seven years with the same people, suddenly they'll do something you didn't even think they were capable of.
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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I'm really not worried about what fans think.
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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
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I think if you're constantly reinvesting into your content and giving the fans stuff, then you can continue to tour. You can continue to sell the merch and monetize the popularity of the brand.
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I think we can all learn things if we really want to. It's fascinating how that can get expedited when you have a support system around you.
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I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
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I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.
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I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.
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I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.
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I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
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I started visiting schools and talking to kids about bullying and what to do and how to deal with it. I don't think that there is one person who has lived life without being bullied. Everybody gets bullied - whether it's cyber-bullying or to your face or behind your back.
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Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.
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I've never seen a single episode of 'So You Think You Can Dance.'
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Obviously any band, any group, someday is not going to be together anymore. That's the truth.
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We try not to pull any punches and be straightforward, and I think that's what helped us connect with everybody across the board.
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When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.
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New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.
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I don't think people know how much time and effort truly goes into the game and goes into simply just scoring a touchdown. So when you get that opportunity, you should be able to be free and be relaxed from all the pressure that went into scoring that touchdown and have fun.
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When you're working with the same band you kind of know their style inside out, and even when you've been working for seven years with the same people, suddenly they'll do something you didn't even think they were capable of.
