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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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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I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is.
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My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.
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One of the things we say in this band is if it's not fun, it's not worth doing.
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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
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Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.
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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.
