Nick Lowe (Nicholas Drain Lowe) Quotes
When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don't go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
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I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'
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I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.
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Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?
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I wished I had been born early enough to have been called a Little Englander. It was a term of sneering abuse, but I should be delighted to accept it as a description of myself. That little sounds the right note of affection. It is little England I love.
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In Tennessee, you can live off fast food. It's everywhere... But it's nowhere in San Francisco, and I didn't know how to navigate the city to eat.
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I'm not aiming for an Academy Award.
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He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.
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When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their riches and their spells, asking to be allowed to contribute to the new emotions which we feel and in which, erasing their former image, we recast them in an original creation.
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The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it.
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When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.
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When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.
