Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.
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Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
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Education is the development of power and ideal.
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I'm a regular at a hospital in Pennsylvania. The Riddle Hospital in Media, Pennsylvania.
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Two hundred channel choices in most homes certainly gives you the world of choice. And so slicing it, dicing it, and offering someone their favorite thing - by the way, if it's not good enough, make it yourself and post it.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.
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While there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we do not teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual, however; for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.
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If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.
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Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.
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People get so tired of the '60s.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.
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I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.
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'SNL' is really hard to do when you're single and living alone. And then it's pretty tough when you're married, because you don't see your spouse.
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I have faced rejection in this business because of my appearance, but that has only made me stronger and more determined.
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Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.
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My parents' example of a loving, caring relationship, I think, has affected my songwriting a ton and allowed me to start writing love songs that people could connect to without sounding like you're being cheesy, because they're coming from a real place, something that I saw coming up. I think they're a huge influence on my songwriting.
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