Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.
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We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
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It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
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Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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Who can really say who invents something first in fashion?
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When my kids correct my cultural missteps, I sometimes suspect that they're not embarrassed, they're gleeful.
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So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.
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Great trouble breeds great art, I think.
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You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.
