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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I was raised with the idea that the arts were a doss - but the arts are vital. If you see Mark Rylance perform Shakespeare at the Globe, you know it's a spiritual act.
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Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.
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We look at problems happening halfway across the world and we think, 'Well, that's their problem.' But it's not. ... When you solve somebody else's problem, you're solving a problem for yourself because our world today is so interconnected.
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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
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Just down the stretch, it's about making plays, making shots. Sometimes it just boils down to making shots.
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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.
