Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
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I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'
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There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.
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For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.
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The time of day we choose for prayer doesn't matter, so long as we keep it faithfully. Prayer must be part of the rhythm of our daily lives.
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Shale gas represents a promising new potential energy resource for the UK. It could contribute significantly to our energy security, reducing our reliance on imported gas, as we move to a low-carbon economy.
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I'm the benefactor of people who are doing so much hard work championing women composers.
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I think we're actually the only sport that has a mix of men and women competing together. The majority of other sports are separated by gender.
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These audiences are so damn smart, way smarter than the studios give them credit for.
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Women hear rhythm differently than men.
