Nick Cave Quotes
Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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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!
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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.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.
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But actors should act. You should see them most often rather than just not.
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When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.
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That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
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After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.
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People think they have to be good before they can act good. But ... it works just as well the other way 'round.
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Life is beautiful. Cherish every moment even if you're stressed or hurt or whatnot. There's always tomorrow and it always gets better
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Whatever success I've had so far has been assimilated into my body and mind.
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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.
