Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.
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I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
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I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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I think of myself as a writer as much as I think of myself as a linguist and an academic. I really enjoy writing - playing with language and getting just the right metaphor.
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While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales.
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There's something to be said for embracing who you are.
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If I ever have a son, I would call him Frankie, and it's a family name - it's my dad and my dad's dad, so you know, it sticks. I won't forget it.
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I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute it. It doesn't take much - a gaze, an eyelash flutter - for the emotion to be vivid.
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I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.
