Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.
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I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
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I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.
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Let me say something else about this generation. As Commander-in-Chief, I’m pretty tired of some folks trash-talking America’s military and troops.
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A king’s son has nothing but inferiors, each one a potential assassin.
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In a foreign country and with foreign species of life one should take measures to find out whether things will be keeping their value when dead. To settlers I give this advice: 'For the sake of your eyes and hearts, shoot not the Iguana.'
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Are vital U.S. interests more imperiled by what happens in Iraq where were have 50,000 troops, or Afghanistan where we have 100,000, or South Korea where we have 28,000 - or by what is happening on our border with Mexico? … What does it profit America if we save Anbar and lose Arizona?
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Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom Or poets with holy magic. Hey-di-ho.
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Though Jesus Christ in Bethlehem A thousand times his Mother bore, Is he not born again in thee Then art thou lost for evermore.
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Theological or anti-theological argument to prove or disprove the existence of a deity seems to me to occupy itself largely with skating among the difficulties caused by our making a fetish of this word existence.
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The little I knew about my own self wouldn’t have filled a thimble!
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Ordina l'uomo e Dio dispone.
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You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.
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A culture that only recognizes and rewards the same set of attributes results in less collaboration, creativity, and innovation. If we only reward the loudest voices or the sharpest elbows, then we're missing out on the full range of talent.
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I spend a lot of time in the Valley. I'm probably down there every other week or so.
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And one of the reasons that I wrote the cook books was so that I could be at home more than being on the road.
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He never went very far astray in his official business, because he always obeyed the clerks and followed precedents.
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The whole industry evolves around a great song.
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Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into the studio. It's all like that for me. I could go in and write two or three songs in an eight-hour session. You can't over-think songs. You just can't.
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You'll never be alone in the bone orchard.
