"My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant."

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Source : "New Music Express" interview with Nick Kent, 1978.

Elvis Costello

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“Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.”
“When the masses become better informed about science, they will feel less need for help form supernatural Higher Powers. The need for religion will end when man becomes sensible enough to govern himself.”
“I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.”
“I just want to be able to make a movie that takes some chances. I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box.”

Source : "Writer-Director George Nolfi Exclusive Interview THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 26, 2011.
“My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.”
“If I finish tomorrow and look back on the past years, I' d say, 'that wasn't bad'.”

Source : Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
“Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone elses hands.”
“I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women of sense--but by aiming at what they had not, they only proved absurd--for sense cannot be counterfeited.”

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