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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There are times when what you do will be mysterious to everyone... times when you have to change directions before people are ready. Just because someone does something that critics don't like or understand doesn't mean you're failing as a musician. It probably means you're growing.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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This is what I tell my students: step outside of your tiny little world. Step inside of the tiny little world of somebody else. And then do it again and do it again and do it again. And suddenly, all these tiny little worlds, they come together in this complex web. And they build a big, complex world.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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Ironically I think this is what sparked my interest in and passion for the NOAH, which is capable of creating all these old weird and wonderful sounds.
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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.
