Nick Cave Quotes
I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.
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If this be treason, make the most of it!
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I just want my films to work. The hit or flop verdict really affects me. I seriously analyse what went wrong if a film turns out to be a dud!
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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My partner has to have good sized bones.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.
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I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
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Please, do not adjust your television set.
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I have three closets in my bedroom.
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Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by the celestial spheres. Indeed, King Louis XIV of France, confronted with a revised map of his domain based on accurate longitude measurements, reportedly complained that he was losing more territory to his astronomers than to his enemies.
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I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.
