Nick Cave Quotes
Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
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Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.
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I'm only going to make investments with people that I'd want to spend time with anyway.
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The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.
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'No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I’m not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm'.
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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.
