Nick Drake Quotes
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.
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In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
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Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.
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People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
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I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.
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When I travel overseas on many occasions, I get pulled out because I may be buying a one-way ticket, I may be traveling with my sister and we have different last names. That's smart profiling. Just pulling people out one at a time when we have millions of passengers in random screenings I'm not sure is the best way to do it.
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I've met lots of interesting people, but Lucian Freud is the one who sticks out because I spent so much time with him. He taught me discipline, which I hadn't been taught properly before. If I was, like, two seconds, late, he would kick off. Once, I was three minutes late, and he went absolutely berserk.
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
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By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.
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I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.
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Having to respond to things that are made up or untrue tends to be a waste of time.
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Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I'm sure of this; I've always thought the sound that you make is just the tip of the iceberg, like the person that you see physically is just the tip of the iceberg as well.
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Every time I get on an airplane I have a routine. I cover the inside of my nostrils with anti-bacterial ointment. I'm popping Zicam like it's candy. And I drink, literally, from L.A. to New York, six bottles of water.
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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
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I'm just not very good at being happy all the time.
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I made video art for quite a long time, and I made this video covering myself in burgers and dancing to Major Lazer and doing covers of Britney Spears songs... I can't remember how I got there, but my teacher said he'd have to fail me because it had mild nudity.
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It is time that outraged public sentiment cry out in detestation of the outrages committed in the name of religion.
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You can't develop a great car and sell it as an independent. You can develop a great car and make a deal with Mercedes.
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It is beyond ridiculous that wolves need to study a human or that they are capable of it.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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Time has told me not to ask for more, someday our ocean will find its shore.
