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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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.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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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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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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Besides stray instances of acting in school and college, I hadn't prepared myself to be an actor.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done.
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There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.
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So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another.
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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.
