Nick Cave Quotes
Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.Nick Cave The Birthday Party
Quotes to Explore
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
Naomi Watts -
I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
Aaron Johnson -
I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
Gabrielle Aplin -
Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
Laura Wasser -
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
H. L. Mencken -
It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
Abbe Pierre
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
Xavier Becerra -
The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
Samuel Alexander -
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Orson Welles -
How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
Ian Mckellen -
It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!
A. J. Cook -
It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
Adam Cohen
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
Maggie Nelson -
Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.
Manika -
But actors should act. You should see them most often rather than just not.
Saif Ali Khan -
When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.
Gavin Newsom -
That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
RaeLynn -
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln
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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
Alexander Hamilton -
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Aristotle -
Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.
Charles James Fox -
You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.
Christina Aguilera -
Fans who drive insane amount of hours to come to a show still amazes me. I mean, it can get up to 10 hours! That's loyalty.
Taylor Dye -
Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party