Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.
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There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.
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Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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There is a lot of stuff I like. I love backpacking. I love going to an island where I can just sit on the beach and read or scuba dive and sail. I do a lot of that. I still go backpacking around Europe in the summers and staying in hostels. I love that.
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I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
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I was never really good in school.
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I think if I'd ever had any skeletons in the closet, they'd have been out a long time ago.
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The best part about poker is there's no down side.
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My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
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I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
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You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.
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One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".
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When in doubt, play track 4 - it is usually the one you want.
