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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Rihanna is always on my playlist. I think she pumps you up and gets the day going. I also love - and I know this doesn't sound like a workout album - the Lumineers, lately, and Taylor Swift.
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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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It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?
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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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As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.
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For inspiration you go to the archives, you go to things of the past, but you still need to be contemporary for today. You can never forget the time you're living in because the past is the past and it will never come back.
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People are motivated by fear, but they are not inspired by it. Everything that inspires us comes from love.
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I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.
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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.
