Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.

Elvis Costello

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• You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

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• I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.

  

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• Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.

  

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• When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
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• Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

  

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• I didn’t at first because horror movies scared me too much, but I really do love the genre and it’s a playground where you can really be artistic and create ideas in the minds of the audience and portray the unreal. It’s very cool experimentation ground for a filmmaker.

  

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• It's pretty hard to stand in the queue auditioning to play a gynaecologist on 'Holby City' when you've just played Mandela. You think, 'Actually, I want to challenge myself.'

  

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• Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated.

  

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• It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

  

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• Miami is one of these places where diversity is in our blood, where, you know, if you want to go have a Nicaraguan breakfast, a Cuban lunch, and an American diner dinner, you do.

  

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• I learned from my grandmother, who grew up in devastating war times, how important it is to keep with tradition and celebrate the holidays during tough times.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
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• It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.

  

  Janet McTeer
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• I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as they used to into writing letters.

  

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• Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.

  

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• I really believe in melody.

  

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• I'd met some awfully tough gals in my life, and I find them compelling, if I don't have to socialize with them too much.

  

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• My main concern is the political dimension of European integration. This is one of the most important issues of all, as far as I'm concerned. It has to do with our past, with our sensitivity, perhaps even our hypersensitivity in this regard.

  

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• Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

  

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• Friends who are directors like Jim Mangold or the Wachowskis or Zack Snyder - who, whether they know or not - have really left a mark on who I am as a director.

  

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• Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose.

  

  Kevin Keegan
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• General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.

  

  William Hazlitt
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• The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Truth
  • Hurt
  • Stark