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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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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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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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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I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
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I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.
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People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.
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I know perfectly well that only in happy instants am I lucky enough to lose myself in my work. The painter-poet feels that his true immutable essence comes from that invisible realm that offers him an image of reality....I feel that I do not exist in time, but that time exists in me. I can also realize that it is not given to me to solve the mystery of art in an absolute fashion. Nonetheless, I am almost brought to believe that I am about to get my hands on the divine.
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She’d painted her nails with rainbow stripes and it occurred to him that Vicki was just as beautiful and mysterious as a rainbow. One he’d been chasing for years without ever coming close to reaching the pot of gold at the end.
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If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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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.
