Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.

Elvis Costello

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• When I read 'Fantastic Beasts,' the world that J. K. Rowling has created is so wonderful.

  

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• I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.

  

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• None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.

  

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• Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.

  

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• I think that liberals need to grow up.

  

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• To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.

  

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• Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.

  

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• I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

  

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• Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.

  

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• I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.

  

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• There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

  

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• I also take vitamins because I think when you take care of yourself on the inside it makes a big difference in your skin.

  

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• In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.

  

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• 'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.

  

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• I like to be who I am.

  

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• For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.

  

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• The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

  

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• Would you be free from the condemnation of the sins that are past, from the power of the temptations that are to come? Then take your stand on the Rock of Ages. Let death, let the grave, let the judgment come, the victory is Christ's and yours through Him.

  

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• Whenever someone comes up to me saying, 'I saw you in 'Carlos' and then I saw the rest of your movies,' for me, it's an expression that we might be doing something well. So my life hasn't changed that much. I just try not to go to very crowded places if I'm not in the mood.

  

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• I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.

  

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• For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

  

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• You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.

  

  Elvis Costello