Nick Lowe (Nicholas Drain Lowe) Quotes
As soon as one of my records goes on, it makes a vast portion of the public nervous. They get spooked by it. To some people who have ears to hear, it's a delightful, refreshing change. But to most of the public, it's a load of homemade-sounding nonsense.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
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Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.
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It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.
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It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it possible to work together even though big strains developed between us from time to time.
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.
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You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it's all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems!
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On MySpace ... the whole demographic of the stand-up comedy fan has changed. It's like an indie band thing. People think they've discovered you.
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As soon as one of my records goes on, it makes a vast portion of the public nervous. They get spooked by it. To some people who have ears to hear, it's a delightful, refreshing change. But to most of the public, it's a load of homemade-sounding nonsense.
