Nick Cave Quotes
The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
Edith Pearlman -
Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.
Dalton Trumbo -
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips -
Freedom is never granted; it is won.
A. Philip Randolph -
It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.
Lance Henriksen
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I've only twice in my life come across someone with both high IQ and high EQ naturally; and that was because their parents were super high EQ, and the parents just EQ'd the hell out of them. They're inevitably very successful because now you've got someone who's sharper than the average person and well-rounded, too.
Walter O'Brien -
In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
Sam Kean -
Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
Edgar Ramirez -
Breitbart media is named after the same gentleman who basically framed Shirley Sherrod during the Obama administration.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
Sam Tsui -
I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
Frances McDormand
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
Caitlyn Jenner -
If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
Dan Aykroyd -
I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
Patricia Arquette -
I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
Patricia Polacco -
I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
Octavia Spencer
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She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.
Jane Austen -
Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
William Winwood Reade -
Some sounds are coming from the keyboard and they are very important in the writing process, but on the other hand, we have melody and we have the song before, so if the keyboard sound fits very well, it takes its artistic direction. We play the machines and the machines play us.
Nicolas Godin Air -
I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books.
Walter Dean Myers -
The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party