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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From what I've read, everyone has a claim on Merlin. Was he Scottish, Welsh, English or even French? All these countries have got a big claim on him and Camelot. That's why the Arthurian legends are so popular - because they are such good stories.
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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men. He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that graduallu receded. What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts, as well as the temporary madness, and a range of less straightforward emotions shocking in their intensity.
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Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.
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I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.
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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.
