Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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I grew up on films.
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
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Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decision to sit down and start watching TV. Every other time slot is a time slot that happens after someone's watching something else.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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Every year, I say the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl. There's no doubt in my mind every single year. And you have to keep in mind this was well before the Seahawks were good. This was, like, 2-14, drafting-Rick-Mirer Seahawks. I would still be saying they were going to win the Super Bowl.
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People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
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Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.
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In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.
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The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
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I like to work.
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Without choice, you have no innovation. Without innovation, you have nothing.
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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We spend too much time recruiting and not enough time working with the players we have.
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She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.
