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.

Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz

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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.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
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• There has to be a global mission of human progress.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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  • Human
  • Mission

• Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
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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.

  

  E. F. Benson
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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.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
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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.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • You
  • Winning
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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.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Good
  • American
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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.

  

  Aldo Leopold

• There's every financial incentive in the world to stay in the conservative movement forever.

  

  David Brock
  • World
  • 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.

  

  Kathryn Lasky
  • Church
  • Feminist

• 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.

  

  David Brainerd
  • Nature
  • Soul
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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.

  

  Frederick Sanger
  • Life

• I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own.

  

  Amy Adams

• 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.

  

  Alexis Denisof
  • Success

• I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.

  

  Anna Paquin
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• Reading is, hands-down, my favorite activity.

  

  Paulina Porizkova
  • Reading

• I don't mind putting my heart out there for the audience, and for the country music fans... to be vulnerable with them... that's my job as an artist.

  

  Tyler Farr
  • Music
  • Country
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• In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is.

  

  Brian Austin Green
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• Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth 'It unscrews the other way.

  

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• Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.

  

  Edward V. Long
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  • Americans

• No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

  

  Logic
  • Thinking

• Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas of their own, and I always go with the character's choices. Most of the time I discover plot twists and directions that are better than what I originally had planned.

  

  Neal Shusterman
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  • Thinking
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Thinking
  • Careers
  • Forty