Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
There's so many people to see. So many people to check up on and add to your collection.
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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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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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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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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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My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.
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When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.
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I moved to Cardiff when I was 17 and never needed a car. When I came to L.A. for my first job there, I needed a car, so I had to pass my driving test.
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I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.
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Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement.
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Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interests first.
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Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.
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I'm a people's man - only the people matter.
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There's so many people to see. So many people to check up on and add to your collection.
