Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

Elvis Costello

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• In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.

  

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• I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.

  

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• My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.

  

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• From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.

  

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• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

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• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

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• You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

  

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• This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.

  

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• When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

  

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• I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.

  

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• I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

  

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• Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

  

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• On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.

  

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• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

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• I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.

  

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• My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.

  

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• I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.

  

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• The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.

  

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• I was holding a reserve inside all along. When you're with someone as powerful as Donald, you have no choice. You can get lost within that power if you're not careful.

  

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• One thing I disliked about being a lawyer was billing for my time.

  

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• If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

  

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• Well, he's got a much bigger circus to play with, and he has a lot more financing available, and he has a lot more time available. I think that makes a huge difference. I think he instinctively knows how to make films and all the different ways that you can make stuff. He's very gadget-wise, and he's very smart about all the different things that are available to a filmmaker nowadays, and he makes very good use of them. He has a theater in his house, for God's sake. It has proper curtains on it and everything. It's pretty wild.

  

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• In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall?

  

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• And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Music