Nick Cave Quotes
The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
Quotes to Explore
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I write in a small office at home.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.
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I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair taken care of and work at needlepoint.
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Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.
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The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
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The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
