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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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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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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When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.
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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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You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.
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If I ever leave, it'll be after winning a championship. You need to go out on a high so that people remember you for the right reasons.
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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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Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind.
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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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Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.
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I didn't think there was life after modelling, believe me. It's a hit to the ego when you are not the diva on the set any more. But I think what keeps me going are challenges. I love when people tell me I can't do something.
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I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.
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I got into comics because I wrote an 'X-Men' novel for Pocket Books, and I introduced myself to the head of recruitment at Marvel. I'd heard through the grapevine they liked the book, so that gave me the courage to go up to them and be like, 'Hey, if you ever need a writer, here I am.'
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We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense.
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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.
