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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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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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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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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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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While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
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I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'
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What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
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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'm not a big fan of the high-altitude approach of mega TV ads.
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You are not what you think you are, but what you THINK, you ARE.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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We recognize that our progress as a species does not have to be defined in terms of wealth or material and physical growth any more than our progress as individuals has to be defined in terms of physical growth. Physical growth of the body reaches a limit, but the character and the soul of the individual continues to grow, or at least has a chance to continue, often to our last breath. It is simple minded to define our well being in material terms, when that well-being has an aesthetic dimension, and intellectual dimension, a moral dimension.
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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.
