Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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The world is too violent right now.
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I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn't mean I didn't want to know why some things worked and why others did not. My interest took me to culinary school.
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We all have different things that make us strong and weak, but if we communicate and we really open ourselves and open our hearts, you're going to be amazed by the things that you can learn.
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In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.
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Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.
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I just try to attack the rim as hard as I can. Try to get the crowd pumped up a little bit.
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'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.
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It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.
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A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.
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When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all the more true with refugees.
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Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.
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I would say the songs that have different lyrics. I always write the music first, and there's a couple of songs on this box set that have different lyrics from what ended up on the final recording.
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You cannot borrow and spend your way into prosperity. It does not work.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.
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I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility.
