Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

Commercial radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.

Elvis Costello

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• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Heart
  • Someone
  • Sleeve

• I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Important
  • Home
  • Worry

• I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • World
  • Work
  • Why

• Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Success
  • Courage
  • Luck

• Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Funny
  • Thought

• I can say this: You haven't lived until you've had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Different
  • Character
  • Girl

• The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

  

  Sallust
  • Beauty
  • Wealth
  • Intellectual

• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • World
  • Ideas

• European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Why
  • Discipline
  • Will

• While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Real
  • Business
  • Justice

• Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Women
  • American
  • Chinese

• I have crushes on women all the time.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Time
  • Women
  • Crushes

• True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Forever

• The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be.

  

  Mark Bittman
  • Work
  • Health
  • Evil

• If the enemy tortures, it defines their moral evil and all intelligence gleaned from such coercion is self-evidently false propaganda. If we do it, it isn't wrong, and it leads to good intelligence.Got that? And these people have the gall to describe their ideological opponents as moral relativists.

  

  Andrew Sullivan
  • People
  • Good
  • Evil

• I like making all kinds of music, it really depends on the moment. Sometimes I feel like making a weird trap song, and sometimes I can't even attach a track to a genre.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Music
  • Song
  • Weird

• I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Trying
  • Smart

• I've always dreamed of being a superhero, and I actually got to play one!

  

  Lucas Till
  • Superhero

• Commercial radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Music
  • Enemy
  • Radio