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Elvis Costello Quotes

I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: british
Birth: August 25, 1954

Topics

Yourself You Find Compliment Against

I'm not a prude.

Jennifer Coolidge

Theater actors are just tolerated. You have to be a movie star to be a celebrity.

You Celebrity Star Just Movie Star

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

Kindness Friend Better Well Would

What I think is great style advice that people have told me is that people who are confident look beautiful. No matter what they're wearing, no matter if they're inappropriately dressed, no matter if their hair's not really done right, eyebrows haven't been tweezed.

Soledad O'Brien

Beautiful Great Style People Hair

I look cooking! Particularly pad thai.

Tom Weston-Jones

Cooking Look Thai Pad Particularly

More Americans are working today than at any time in history.

Today History Time More Working Any

Of course, you can't teach songwriting. You can only encourage people to do it and help them to sort out for themselves what they want to achieve, and get a list of exercises together that improves the craft and gives them more access to the craft of writing good songs.

Good Together People Writing Help

The omniscient narrator is a bizarre technique, when you think about it, and no one uses it much anymore. But for the novels I want to write, it's the only approach that makes sense to me.

Me Think You Want Write Sense

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

Long Know Difference Head Guy Plate

Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.

Power Me World Page Real Status

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.

Music Battle You Circle Kind Run

At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.

Tullian Tchividjian

Relationship Expectations Measure Up

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