Nick Lowe (Nicholas Drain Lowe) Quotes
In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.
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When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
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I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
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When it comes to finances, immigrants are far savvier than native-born Americans. They keep their expenses low. They save their money.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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I hope I have a long career, but I really don't think about the future like that. I live, like, for right now, honestly. I take it however it comes.
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We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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I just look at what's going on in the world.
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Because of the relationship between programmed cell death and human disease, the identification of the genes and proteins that function in the process of programmed cell death has provided new targets for possible intervention in a broad diversity of disorders.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
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I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.
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The consciousness-raising, the advocacy, the passion, the youth of your movement is so critical.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.
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In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.
