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 don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just 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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Marketing is a core part of anything you do.
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You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.
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The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
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That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
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The disciples realized that they too were his enemies, and that he had overcome them by his love. It is this that opens the disciple’s eyes, and enables him to see his enemy as a brother.
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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.
