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.Elvis Costello
Quotes to Explore
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
Olivia Wilde -
Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
Taylor Sheridan -
I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
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.
Aaron Ciechanover -
I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.
Idris Elba -
You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
Malcolm McDowell
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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.
Taylor Sheridan -
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
Federico Fellini -
A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
Zig Ziglar -
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.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
Nancy McKeon -
My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
F. Sionil Jose
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Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
Patricia Ireland -
I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
Iain Banks -
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.
Daniel Barenboim -
My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
Aaron Koblin -
At some point, all comics have to go out and be retail salesmen doing door-to-door. And this idea of somebody who totally knows their craft having to get up for free in front of a crowd to work out some stuff they're thinking in their head, still, after as much success as you can get, is really interesting.
Ira Glass
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
Wallace Stevens -
Don't claim you're sincere, just be it.
Eva Heller -
Just like anyone else, I watch a lot of reality TV yet will turn my nose up at some of it, e.g., ABC's 'Splash,' because I think I'm above it.
Phoebe Robinson -
All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.
Black Kettle -
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.
Elvis Costello