Nick Cave Quotes
We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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'Grease' was how I learned that I really liked music and musicals and movies that included music.
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Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to kick over the traces. You must keep her on a tight rein . . . Women want total freedom or rather - to call things by their names - total licence. If you allow them to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live with? Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters . . .
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Playing in front of people is a lot different from playing in your room.
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I believe that the most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
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We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.
