Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?
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I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the audience, 'Oh look! It's Anthony Quinn.' And I'm like, 'Hello? Kid just got a gold medal. Hello? I'm over here.'
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
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The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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We can search among the unconscious, emotion-laden learning rules for the kind of behavior most directly influenced by genetic evolution.
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I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife.
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If you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again.
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We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.
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We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together.
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Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.
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She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet.
