Nick Cave Quotes
I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.
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But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.
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I always feel safe with a woman photographer. I feel that no matter how they interpret something, they understand all sides of it because they are women, and women are complex creatures.
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If you compare it to 'Batman' and 'Superman,' the world of 'Green Lantern' is way bigger and potentially way more interesting in a lot of ways, I think.
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Ultimately, I remain optimistic about not just America's future, but the direction that the world is growing.
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I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.
