Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel.
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.
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I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.
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I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
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Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be.
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To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.
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I had admired the way the producers of the 'Harry Potter' franchise had found David Yates, who ended up doing their four final movies, and he'd come from television.
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I'm real happy. I've been lucky in love, and I've got a wonderful kid now, and things have been going well.
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It's very difficult for me to evaluate my own stuff.
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I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea.
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I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.
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Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television.
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Like almost all others began with metaphysical discussions. The theory has advanced but the practical science is still in its infancy and the modern statesman is constantly short of facts on which he can base his speculations.
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We suffer without a choice. We do not want to suffer and we try everything to be happy but the suffering happens regardless of our wishes and we cannot do anything about it.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.
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I really ought to try and make a film that's a bit more cynical. But I don't think I'd know how to do it. I think what it is, is that if you're a film director, you're basically there because you enjoy manipulating people's emotions.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel.
