Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated.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 United States, therefore, works to ensure that any actions we take are consistent with international laws and norms - including those reflected in the Law of the Sea Convention. It's worth remembering that our presence in the region is nothing new.
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I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one.
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Law and custom are becoming the subjects of a new field of learning. The anarch endeavors to judge them ethnographically, historically, and also – I will probably come back to this – morally. The State will be generally satisfied with him; it will scarcely notice him In this respect he bears a certain resemblance to the criminal – say, the master spy – whose gifts are concealed behind a run-of-the-mill occupation.
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Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.
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You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.
