Nick Cave Quotes
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
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Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.
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I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.
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We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.
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Dining with a married couple can be uncomfortable.
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I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.
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So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.
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If Europe's outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.
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'Lost' makes a lot of sense to me, philosophically.
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Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.
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I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.
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The English have a special sense of humour. This I immediately experienced in the dressing room. As I walked with two plates while eating, suddenly a team-mate asked me, 'Basti, what time is it?' hoping I would automatically turn my hand to look at my watch. That's quite entertaining.
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People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.
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In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long as they don't get married, she gets maybe 20 or 30 thousand dollars in pre-tax benefits in terms of food stamps, health care and housing allowance.
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There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.
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I was married to a state of mind and I divorced it
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I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.
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Made poetry a mere mechanic art.
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The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
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Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
