Nick Cave Quotes
My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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Death and dying provide a meeting-point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to contribute to each other on the level of understanding and of practical benefit.
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A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.
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In the United States, the slightest infusion of Teutonic blood is thought to be sufficient to account for any considerable degree of intelligence found under any possible color of the skin.
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I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.
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There is a good deal more to nothing than meets the eye.
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My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.
