Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.
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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.
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My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?
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Virtual reality is inevitably going to become mainstream - it's only a question of how good it needs to be before the mainstream is willing to use it.
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We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served the best health care, the best educational opportunities, and the best job training available. They deserve nothing less.
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I worked in a restaurant and in a nightclub cloakroom.
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I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
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And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used.
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I was going to college to be a doctor.
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If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.
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I love everyone over at Netflix. They're all fantastic and an absolute joy to work with.
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For me, the most indispensable tool for wrapping presents is a wife.
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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We were Orthodox Jews, but we really didn't deserve it. I mean, bacon - my father said, 'Don't put bacon in the house,' but we had bacon. We didn't keep kosher. And we observed which today would be Conservative Jews. But in those days, we belonged to an Orthodox temple. So we made out we were Orthodox Jews, but we really weren't.
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That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
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I loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an inspiration. I took piano lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels for 10 years.
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Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can't persuade himself to believe are good.
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I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.
