Nick Cave Quotes
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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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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I came to the United States by myself when I was 16 years old. My parents had about $5,000 in their bank account, and they used it all to send me here because they truly believed that this country was where I was going to get the best education and have the best opportunities.
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.
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I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
