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My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all than the mere hum-drum quality of existence.

Elvis Costello

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Elvis Costello
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 25
Composer
Guitarist
Record Producer
Singer-Songwriter
London
England
Declan Patrick MacManus
Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus
Declan MacManus
Enough
Daily
Thinking
Mere
Irritant
Life
Ultimate
Disrupts
Leave
Irritants
Existence
Drum
Maybe
Vocation
Quality
Drag
Someone
Victim

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