Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I'll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I always wanted to be on a sitcom.
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We are staying focused on the mission and we know we are in good hands with the people on the ground.
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I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.
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Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power.
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Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I'll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.
