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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I have Bright's disease and he has mine.
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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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One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.'
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When it came to the discussion about would Harley do an electric bike, I said, 'Absolutely - this is a no-brainer.' Let's define the sound of the future.
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Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.
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Writers always know whether you like them or not.
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.
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Fourteen basic and well-known managing processes make up the components from which a management system for any business can be fashioned.
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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.
