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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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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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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The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.
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Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly.
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There is nothing like this extended family that is Fleetwood Mac. And I think you have to say, for all the perceived and real dysfunction that there has been, underneath that, there is and always has been a great deal of love. And that keeps pulling us back together.
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The most important thing I can say is to make music that moves you. Don't try and chase what's on the radio or what you think people want to hear.
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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.
