Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
I'm goin' to take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores. They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
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When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
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With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.
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We should learn to think with our fingers.
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Advice, n. The smallest current coin.
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You don't start out getting into the gym and bench pressing 300 pounds. You start out by doing the bar.
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I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.
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You got to be careful mentioning people as great as Clint Eastwood. You can't put me in the same sentence as that man.
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[Writing something original from scratch], the initial process is way different. But once it exists and you start to actually work on making it real, then the approach is kind of the same, for me anyways.
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Are we defined by our choices? Our behavior? Our actions? No. I don't believe that defines our worth.
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In the end, it is always the ruling classes, bourgeois certainly, but above all aristocratic, that long mourn the empires, and their grief always has a stagey quality to it.
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I've secretly always wanted to be an astronaut.
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The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.
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Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.
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There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels.
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I'm goin' to take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores. They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors.
