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 a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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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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Time found our tired love sleeping,And kissed away his breath;But what should we do weeping,Though light love sleep to death?We have drained his lips at leisure,Till there's not left to drainA single sob of pleasure,A single pulse of pain.
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Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.
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I don't think many people have met someone like me. I don't think the world gets to see too many women like me, and I enjoy being that woman.
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The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.
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I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.
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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.
