Nick Cave Quotes
I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet...
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
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Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.
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Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.
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How do you open up? I didn't know how to.
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To be joining 'The Hunger Games' family is such a thrill. It deserves the hype because it's well written, handles really big subject matter, but doesn't talk down to its audience. And then there's the romance element.
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Great horror movies are earned. 'Halloween' is an earned picture. Every moment of grotesque violence is earned by the suspense they're able to maintain getting there.
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I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.
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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
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Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.
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Your life is a reflection of how you think.
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One of the keystones of romantic love - and also of the ecstatic religion practiced by mystics - is the powerful desire to become one with the beloved.
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Treasure the shadow. ... There are no shadows save from substance cast.
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
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I take it one play, one game at a time, ... I don't look any further.
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I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet...
