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 think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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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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When you take a lot of cocaine powder you tend to take a lot of alcohol with it as well, so for many years really I never went out without at least four or five grams of cocaine powder.
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I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.
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The music has a better feeling when you're responding to what's going on. Music is like playing handball, playing catch with someone, not playing golf. Everywhere the ball bounces is where you respond to it.
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I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.
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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.
