Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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I was raised in church. I was brought up in that life, and I think that it's very important for everybody to be in touch with their spirituality and to have a relationship with God.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
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Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.
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The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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Let me shake it off I just signed a couple deals I might break you off
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I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.
