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Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you. ↗

— Elvis Costello

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When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie. ↗

— Elvis Costello

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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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