Nick Lowe (Nicholas Drain Lowe) Quotes
I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
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I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.
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If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.
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My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
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Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.
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I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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I'm an actor, so I like costumes.
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What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
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Hard times always lead to something great.
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Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return.
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I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in.
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So few hip-hop artists have ever advanced. Their songs on their seventh, eighth albums sound exactly like the songs on their first album. More than an artist, I'm a real person-and real people grow. And I wanna just sing my growth.
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But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
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I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.
