Nick Lowe (Nicholas Drain Lowe) Quotes
When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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An ethic to supplement and guide the economic relation to land presupposes the existence of some mental image of land as a biotic mechanism.
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The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.
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There's every financial incentive in the world to stay in the conservative movement forever.
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I am not saying that the Renaissance in any way was a feminist movement - hardly. But the arts flourished, and in more social settings as opposed to being confined to the church.
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A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.
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It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him.
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I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own.
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I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.
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My mother's side of the family, they're from Montserrat in the Leeward Islands.
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Self-proclaimed saviors and other outliers come and go throughout our political history. Occasionally, they're successful; most times, they're not. But the system has rebalanced toward the basic principles of tolerance, freedom and democracy that were set forth by the Founders.
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Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking. I often feel like I have to go back to that 17-year-old Chris Crutcher, and that forms the core voice. I can draw on teens from 1964 to 2001 to find a part of the voice I need.
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Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.
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The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think.
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A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.
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For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.
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When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap.
