Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
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Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
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I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
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I love everything about playing for Newcastle, the club, the fans and the city.
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You always want your films to go as far as they can.
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I learned from my mom to always keep pushing yourself.
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Scripture tells us that there is evil in the world, and that terrible things happen for reasons that defy human understanding. In the words of Job, 'when I looked for light, then came darkness.' Bad things happen, and we must guard against simple explanations in the aftermath.
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The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.
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I have Bright's disease and he has mine.
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My brain's dead weight, I'm tryin' to get my head straight, but I can't figure out which Spice Girl I want to impregnate.
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I don’t feel any vulgar gratitude to you. I almost feel as if you ought to be grateful to me, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. I know you like it. For anything I can tell, I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness.
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Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.
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To me, when people say, 'Oh, you're a freak athlete,' it's bittersweet. It's a huge compliment to say, 'O.K., you have physical abilities that are kind of above and beyond.' But at the same time, I feel like it diminishes the mental side of the game.
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As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.
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The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.
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They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home.
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The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.
