Nick Cave Quotes
Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
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There's some freedom that you get with indie films that you don't get with the big-budget ones. There's just a different style. I hope I can switch back and forth for the rest of my career, but I've kind of grown up on indies, and there's nothing better than working with these directors so closely and and being such a huge part of the process.
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I need to be more romantic. I do. I know that's something women really appreciate.
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I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.'
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Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
