Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.
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I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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Pre-show, I warm up my voice, stretch, do a little team huddle, and sometimes throw a shot of whiskey in there, too. After the show, I hang out at merch meeting people and signing things. After that, I usually try to see friends in whatever city we're in, or if I'm super beat, listen to a podcast and pass out.
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
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Selling online is one channel, but it's not the only channel.
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I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
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The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.
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I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.
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I love 70's music.
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It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.
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My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfriend.
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I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.
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Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer to talk with the one that I belong to.
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Swingers are all from the suburbs and consequently brain-addled by car pools, shopping malls, and welcome wagons.
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I want to try not to repeat myself. But then I seem to do it continuously in my films. It's not something I make any effort to do. I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience. I feel I get criticized for style over substance, and for details that get in the way of the characters. But every decision I make is how to bring those characters forward.
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The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.
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And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.
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I hit some awful shots. I still hit some awful shots. But at least they're a little better. The first week, the Golf Channel was all over me. I said, 'God, just leave me alone. Let me drown by myself.'
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If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.
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Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.
