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Elvis Presley

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ELIN
What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b...
STEPHEN R. COVEY
People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one ...
MUHAMMAD ALI
When you feel this burden, you might be frustrated, wondering why no one else cares as much as you d...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
For years, Elvis Presley Enterprises and the Presley family have envisioned a project like this. We ...
JACK SODEN
In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
CHARLEY PRIDE
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS
I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of thei...
K. FLAY
I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school....
K. FLAY
It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
MAC DAVIS
Twenty to twenty-five! These are the years! Dont be content with things as they are. Dont take No fo...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Whats the point of changing everything about your lover? you dont love them entirely for who they ar...
AMIR RIVEROLL
As an entertainer, Justin Timberlake has learned from the past. He can cradle a mic stand like Elvis...
ROGER STONE
I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a...
NATALIE COLE
Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And tune his merry note,
Unto the ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Michael's the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it's Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra...
TRACY MORGAN
Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.
GORDON WALLER
This was the plan: we would take a holy and sacred picture of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Elvis P...
MARK MANNING
Maybe there are no right moments, right guys, right answers...maybe you just have to say whats in yo...
SARAH JESSICA PARKER
Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as thou...
NEIL GAIMAN
God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of G...
JOHNNY CASH
‎"Dance as though no one is watching you, Love as though you have never been hurt before, Sing as ...
NELINA JUNE ORBE RILLOMA
We're planning a tournament to take place during the Elvis Presley Festival. We hope it's going to b...
GRAYSON ROBBINS
A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER
Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE
I don't know what humor is. Anything that's funny -- tragedy or anything, it don't make no differenc...
WILL ROGERS
Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS)
I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a s...
EVEL KNIEVEL
CHILD: “Why does carrot cake have the best icing?” MOTHER: “Because it needs the best icing.�...
B.J. NOVAK
I have an oval-shaped scar on the knuckle of my right index finger from crashing my hand through a l...
PETER LERANGIS
I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, wi...
JACKIE DESHANNON
He does allow me the freedom to do a few things, as long as I don't hurt the defense and I make sure...
AL WILSON
I collect items like Elvis Presley clock radios and '50s memorabilia. It inspires a lot of my im...
PETE BURNS
O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I was too young that time to value her,
But now I know her. If she be a traitor,
Why, so ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he wa...
JERRY LEIBER
And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revoluti...
PHIL OCHS
I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.
TINA YOTHERS
But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as...
BOB GAUDIO
You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways--but it does...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Life is only one,it got no duplicate nor a certain expiry date,so you got to cater for yours,as long...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - ...
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL
To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions ...
JOEY RAMONE
Do not care what other people say if you know what you are doing is right as long as your conscience...
NISHI DE SILVA
People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER
There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES
One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profit...
JON LANDAU
As long as you follow the new procedural rules, it shouldn't hurt you that bad if the bankruptcy is ...
FRANK ADAMS
They don't kill you unless you light them," he said as Mom arrived at the curb. "And I've never lit ...
JOHN GREEN
Fear no more as long as her memory surrounds you like a ghost…cry no more as long as she weeps for...
MUNIA KHAN
I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love si...
SAMANTHA BARKS
I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis...
IAN MCLAGAN
Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride...
ABIGAIL SPENCER
I'm at a loss for words right now. I've never had one hurt like this, not when you're as close as we...
TONY WOODY
You can't be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as original as Led Zepp...
BILLY CORGAN
I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.
GEORGE THOROGOOD
I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000...
AHMET ERTEGUN
As long as no one eats them.
MARSHALL GOSS
People don't always have to do the right thing for the right reasons—so long as they do the right ...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Do the days work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to he...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. ...
CASSANDRA CLARE
You must have to stand with courage in what you believe is right. People may try to deter you from y...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name?

ORLANDO: Yes, just.

JAQUES: I do not lik...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Here comes Monseiur Le Beau.
Rosalind: With his mouth full of news.
Celia: Which he will p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from th...
NORTON JUSTER
I want you to do it right as fast as you can, not fast as right as you can.
ARTHUR COLLINS
And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a ...
PHIL OCHS
Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal succ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL
In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
KANYE WEST
Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
J. P. MORGAN
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
THOMAS CARLYLE
You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
ADAM LAMBERT
I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
ETHEL MERMAN
Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, Sing as if no one is listening, Love as if y...
LAO TZU
There's nothing wrong with being poor as long as you vote for the right man.
HOWARD PLATT
It really starts with the day Elvis Presley went to Sun Studios to record a song for his mother. Sam...
STAN PERKINS
When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I ...
JAMES BALDWIN
I was raised on Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly and discovered the Stray Cats when I was 11 or 12 year...
DRAKE BELL
There is no right or wrong path to climb the mountain to enlightenment as long as you continue to cl...
CELESTINE L. GRAY
Most singers have their idols. I remember Elvis Presley when I was a kid. When I was about sixteen, ...
PERCY SLEDGE
As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western worl...
CAITLIN MORAN
Once upon a time, there was a generation of parents who were certain that Elvis Presley's unashamed ...
CHARLIE CARUSO
Do the thing and you will have the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD
As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH
As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK
Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER
I knew it was bad as soon as it happened. It hurt and swelled up right away.
JULIE BRIODY
It opens a whole new door - as long as you have coverage. Without it, for most people, there's no wa...
JASMIN ZAWADA
I have been around for 35 years. I have met Elvis Presley, Elton John, John Lennon, all the Beatles....
URI GELLER
I would have loved to have met Elvis Presley, ... He was the King. It's very interesting to me; the ...
OSCAR DE LA HOYA
Michael and I, to this day, stumble into things, ... We wrote a book on Elvis Presley together in th...
MICHAEL STERN
I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley ...
RICHARD HELL
As long as you are pursuing happiness, you do not have it.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN
It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
MICK JAGGER
When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love tha...
VILLE VALO
You must never feel badly about making mistakes, explained Reason quietly, as long as you take the t...
NORTON JUSTER
about as credible as sightings of Elvis.
BETH WILKINSON

More Elvis Presley

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.
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People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.
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Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
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Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.
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There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.
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I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to ge...
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I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
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The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more year...
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The army teaches boys to think like men.
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Man, I really like Vegas.
ELVIS PRESLEY
I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.
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The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, pu...
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I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigare...
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A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and o...
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I never expected to be anybody important.
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundre...
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Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.
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Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
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The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it...
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Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.
ELVIS PRESLEY
Ah just act the way ah feel.
ELVIS PRESLEY
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
ELVIS PRESLEY
I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.
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I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public a...
ELVIS PRESLEY
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
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Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's w...
ELVIS PRESLEY
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
ELVIS PRESLEY
I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
ELVIS PRESLEY
The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.
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I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the l...
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I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
ELVIS PRESLEY
I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
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I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm si...
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When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing th...
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Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got th...
ELVIS PRESLEY
I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hu...
ELVIS PRESLEY
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn ...
ELVIS PRESLEY
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
ELVIS PRESLEY
When things go wrong, don't go with them.
ELVIS PRESLEY
I learned very early in life that: "Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man...
ELVIS PRESLEY
People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody . . . . Country musi...
ELVIS PRESLEY
I like entertaining people. I really miss it.
ELVIS PRESLEY
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.
ELVIS PRESLEY
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happen...
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It was during Elvis' 18-month assignment in West Germany when he met Priscilla Ann Beaulieu, who was...
ELVIS PRESLEY
I'll stay in Memphis.
ELVIS PRESLEY
When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
ELVIS PRESLEY
Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big....
ELVIS PRESLEY
I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production,...
ELVIS PRESLEY
I'm no hillbilly singer.
ELVIS PRESLEY
After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
ELVIS PRESLEY
I don't make no dirty movements
ELVIS PRESLEY
Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.
ELVIS PRESLEY
I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at he...
ELVIS PRESLEY
When things go bad, don't go with them.
ELVIS PRESLEY
I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
ELVIS PRESLEY
Just a minute,
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I ain't no saint, but I have tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God. I f...
ELVIS PRESLEY
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
ELVIS PRESLEY
Look guys, if you're just going to stare at me, I'm going to bed!
ELVIS PRESLEY
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it's not going to go away.
ELVIS PRESLEY
I learned a lot from 'Elvis' because it wasn't just the impersonator I had to watch,
ELVIS PRESLEY
Maybe it was the sideburns, but I just didnt fit in. (Elvis speaking about his youth)
ELVIS PRESLEY
When things go wrong don't go with them
ELVIS PRESLEY
The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put i...
ELVIS PRESLEY
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happ...
ELVIS PRESLEY
Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside
ELVIS PRESLEY
A Sharon.
ELVIS PRESLEY
It more or less puts your mind at ease, ... It does mine.
ELVIS PRESLEY
I am hands on with this with Bruno,
ELVIS PRESLEY
The interior of the car consists of reupholstered seats, as well as Elvis' initials on the inside of...
ELVIS PRESLEY
better stick to driving trucks.
ELVIS PRESLEY
You got change, man?
ELVIS PRESLEY
We're all just waiting to see what changes, if any, will be made,
ELVIS PRESLEY
Illusions of The King.
ELVIS PRESLEY
and I got the collection my Mother had, and I can't sell any of it.
ELVIS PRESLEY
Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I j...
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A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and o...
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I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch "Rebel Without a Cause" a hund...
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The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the ye...
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Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time
ELVIS PRESLEY
Only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one
ELVIS PRESLEY
If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dolla...
ELVIS PRESLEY
I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the w...
ELVIS PRESLEY
When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw ...
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Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
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I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.
ELVIS PRESLEY
I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, ...
ELVIS PRESLEY
Those movies sure got me into a rut.
ELVIS PRESLEY
It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
ELVIS PRESLEY
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
ELVIS PRESLEY
Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
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I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause ...
ELVIS PRESLEY
Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.
ELVIS PRESLEY
I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to dr...
ELVIS PRESLEY
My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.
ELVIS PRESLEY
I was an overnight sensation.
ELVIS PRESLEY
That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.
ELVIS PRESLEY
The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first reco...
ELVIS PRESLEY
When I get married, it'll be no secret.
ELVIS PRESLEY
I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.
ELVIS PRESLEY
I don't do any vulgar movements.
ELVIS PRESLEY
Absolutely. I - you know, he was so that much a part of my life that, you know, Elvis, you know, onc...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY
Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.
PRISCILLA PRESLEY
He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY
When one of Lisa's baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell o...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY
I'm a very shy person. My daughter and I don't do a lot of interviews, but we felt there was a whole...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY
You have to remember that when I met Elvis, you know, it wasn't the fanfare that it is today or ...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY
As we grow and expand our retail and direct sales presence, so has our need to expand our distributi...
DAVE PRESLEY
As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sen...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY
There is the understanding of the music and culture of the area. The band has studied the idea of th...
WADE PRESLEY
My mom is 79, my dad is 80. I felt they had so much to add, and we didn't want them to pass on and f...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY
At times he could be very critical. He didn't like prints on me. He didn't like stripes. He ...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY
I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible.
PRISCILLA PRESLEY
We will continue to add to the Music Wall of Fame as pictures are brought in.
WADE PRESLEY
I just look at it, as it's something that I had to do. I had this vision that really, Graceland ...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY
It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the ...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY
Local, county and state officials responded very positively to REI locating in Bedford, which has a ...
DAVE PRESLEY
The state's support and understanding of our business needs has been truly amazing, and we look forw...
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No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that...
PRISCILLA PRESLEY
'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two w...
ELVIS COSTELLO
No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the '...
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When Bruce Lee gets his cameo in 'The Green Hornet' - as one of the drawings in Kato's n...
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One of the best things Gwyneth Paltrow has done in years was her mesmerized, good-sport cameo in a &...
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The documentary 'Certifiably Jonathan' has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It'...
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The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,&#...
ELVIS MITCHELL
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
ELVIS COSTELLO
My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
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Muhammad Ali inside the ring and Muhammad Ali outside the ring were totally different men; his abras...
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Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience - the same fetid a...
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The title 'Spirited Away' could refer to what Disney has done on a corporate level to the re...
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Mr. Miyazaki's specialty is taking a primal wish of kids, transporting them to a fantasyland, an...
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If Mr. Chan ever makes another movie like 'The Tuxedo,' it's American audiences that wil...
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What makes 'Pootie Tang' the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it's a j...
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Ice Cube went straight outta Compton to hearing, 'Are we there yet?' Eddie Murphy blew up st...
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A little of the sketch character Pootie Tang went a long way on HBO's now late, probably soon to...
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Tina Fey, a performer and head writer for 'Saturday Night Live,' has deftly adapted Rosalind...
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Political perspective and the Cannes festival are linked almost as inextricably as fast-food consump...
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'Old School' is so breezy it could be a late-night talk show, especially when Craig Kilborn,...
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Inarritu's own nomination for Best Director for 'Babel' was the first such honor for a M...
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I thought that, as a black audience member, I would like to see something that reflected an experien...
ELVIS MITCHELL
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write ...
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'Man is an endangered species,' announces one of the titles at the beginning of the sci-fi l...
ELVIS MITCHELL
It's true that as Mr. Chan makes more American movies - and gets older - we will never again see...
ELVIS MITCHELL
Since most of 'Mean Girls' consists of the outsider Cady observing the tribal rites of her n...
ELVIS MITCHELL
I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.
ELVIS COSTELLO
Berry was a transitional and, to my mind, revolutionary black figure who had to find a place for the...
ELVIS MITCHELL
If you start off as a fearsome figure in pop culture, it's almost axiomatic that at some point, ...
ELVIS MITCHELL
Natalie Portman's approach to acting demands that she wears her heart on her sleeve so explicitl...
ELVIS MITCHELL
I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strateg...
ELVIS COSTELLO
Establishing mood through pictorial means is the director Ridley Scott's most notable talent. Th...
ELVIS MITCHELL
Duncan Jones has skills; he's an architect of emotional dislocation.
ELVIS MITCHELL
We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we'r...
ELVIS MITCHELL
If a movie requires the lead actor to spend a good chunk of his onscreen time talking to himself, an...
ELVIS MITCHELL
Often, when Jim Carrey plays it straight, all of the vitality is drained from his face; he looks lik...
ELVIS MITCHELL
The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and ...
ELVIS MITCHELL
I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going...
ELVIS COSTELLO
Given the knee-jerk patriotism of recent war movies, it's discouraging to see 'Windtalkers&#...
ELVIS MITCHELL
The idea of Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet so inflaming the fanboy community is amusing, since that ...
ELVIS MITCHELL
The picture is being promoted as Disney's 'Spirited Away,' although seeing just 10 minut...
ELVIS MITCHELL
His work isn't all glower. Even though he hasn't smiled in a movie since the underrated '...
ELVIS MITCHELL
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
ELVIS COSTELLO
Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.
ELVIS COSTELLO
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's a really stupid thing to want to do
ELVIS COSTELLO
'Ali' is a breakthrough for its director, Michael Mann. The film, based on the life of Muham...
ELVIS MITCHELL
Like his countryman, Kiefer Sutherland, Seth Rogen has a voice that's 10 years older than he is ...
ELVIS MITCHELL
Theron says that she was intrigued by the psychological demands of the material in playing the compl...
ELVIS MITCHELL
I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.
ELVIS STOJKO
'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one ...
ELVIS MITCHELL
The Wachowskis' use of space rivals that of musical directors like Gene Kelly and Mark Sandrich.
ELVIS MITCHELL
The funniest thing in the world to me is the idea of a white guy in his thirties going, 'Wait - ...
ELVIS MITCHELL
Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting th...
ELVIS COSTELLO
The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film ...
ELVIS MITCHELL
'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged g...
ELVIS MITCHELL
The story of a proud Roman soldier who is sold into slavery and must fight his way back to freedom, ...
ELVIS MITCHELL
When an actor commits himself to a role as fully as Russell Crowe does in the grandiose and silly &#...
ELVIS MITCHELL
The battle scenes in 'Gladiator' don't have the exultant lift of Hong Kong period-action...
ELVIS MITCHELL
People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. ...
ELVIS COSTELLO
'Infernal Affairs' uses a vibrating terseness usually found in the writer and director Micha...
ELVIS MITCHELL
You know what? As a black person, you see so much racism. Films are no different than the government...
ELVIS MITCHELL
I hear they're givin' you a bad reputation
just because you've never been denied.
You try ...
ELVIS COSTELLO
I find humming is very useful.
ELVIS COSTELLO
Though narrative cohesion isn't the strength of 'Mean Girls,' which works better from sc...
ELVIS MITCHELL
Before he became 'a working actor,' as he now proudly calls himself, Jamie Dornan initially ...
ELVIS MITCHELL
The stoic drama 'A Somewhat Gentle Man' is photographed in a palate of steel gray tones that...
ELVIS MITCHELL
It's more dangerous to be a friend or relative of Jackie Chan in the star's movies than it i...
ELVIS MITCHELL
When I Was Cruel.
ELVIS COSTELLO
It's so funny: whenever there's a new technology introduced, there's always this fear it...
ELVIS MITCHELL
I dress well. I travel; I seem to be relatively glamorous for a film guy - which, to me, is like bei...
ELVIS MITCHELL
Given how unflinching his productions have been, the 44-year-old McQueen is remarkably gentle and th...
ELVIS MITCHELL
It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to s...
ELVIS COSTELLO
'Black Hawk Down' has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like p...
ELVIS MITCHELL
The pleasantly crude 'Hall Pass' reminds us of what's been missing from movies: Those sq...
ELVIS MITCHELL
We were really looking for a fresh sound, and I think you can hear that with the use of electronics ...
ELVIS COSTELLO
There was not a lot of rock n' roll in the house. Our parents didn't think it was very groov...
ELVIS COSTELLO
We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justific...
ELVIS COSTELLO