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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Composed for renown am I, a verse heard on the stone-doored isle in the four-quartered fort. Tranquillity and obscurity mingled shiny wine their drink before their retinue. Three fulnesses of Prydwen we went upon the main, Save for seven none came up from Castle Rigor.
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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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Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.
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To the West, it seems hardly imaginable that the relationship between man and man (which is morality) could be maintained without reference to a Supreme Being, while to the Chinese it is equally amazing that men should not, or could not, behave toward one another as decent beings without thinking of their indirect relationship through a third party.
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And some days I wonder why I insist on keeping myself alive.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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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.
