Nick Cave Quotes
I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
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You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
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You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a woman, so I'm definitely going to write from that point of view.
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And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
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My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.
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The president's decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb... has placed us on the knife-edge of history.
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Trade balances are determined by national savings propensities, not exchange rates.
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I'm very critiqueful of my own stuff, and I kick everybody out the studio when I'm singing, no one is in the studio, it's just me and the engineers, no one else in the studio when I'm doing my thing.
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I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.
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I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.
