Nick Cave Quotes

When you've been initiated, you can stand in the world differently. And I think it is up to all of us, we can have cheerleaders, we can have supporters, but it comes down to us as individuals, how do we now proceed? Do we have the tools to proceed?

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• I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Enough
  • Author
  • Role

• I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Love
  • Nice

• My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Night

• Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • America
  • Confusion
  • Only

• I don't see myself as a diva at all.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Myself
  • See
  • Diva

• My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Up
  • Night
  • City

• Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Everything
  • Conflict
  • Wants

• And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Fear

• We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Ignorance
  • Case
  • Bliss

• In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Time
  • Country
  • Night

• Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Free
  • Humanity
  • Religion

• If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Good
  • Work
  • Television

• I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Mother

• London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • World
  • London
  • Most

• I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • World
  • Fun
  • Opinion

• I think humans are fascinating in general. We're so weird. We do so many quirky things, and we don't even know it. There's just so many layers upon layers of nuances in everything we do, and the most fun part as an actor is trying to get into all those nuances, whether they're conscious or unconscious.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Think

• I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

  

  Brit Marling
  • Good
  • Work
  • Brain

• In music, it makes for a good platform to take time and really mold a piece the way I need to mold it. When it comes to fashion, I create a functional art that moves.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• What dark secrets do you keep hidden from the world? Where would you go if no one could find you? What would you do if no one could see you?

  

  P. C. Cast
  • World
  • Dark
  • Secret

• None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Wish
  • Proud
  • Taken

• When you've been initiated, you can stand in the world differently. And I think it is up to all of us, we can have cheerleaders, we can have supporters, but it comes down to us as individuals, how do we now proceed? Do we have the tools to proceed?

  

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