Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
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There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.
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I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.
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And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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I love my fan base because they never high-five me; they always get really shifty and hide. Adam Sandler's fan base are like, 'Hey!' and high-five him and want to hang out, but mine go behind pillars and get really freaked out.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.
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The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.
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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
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The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.
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On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.
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No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.
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People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.
