Nick Cave Quotes
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
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No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
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Belief is thought at rest.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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The well-known inspiration for 'Ulysses' is made clear by the title itself: Joyce's novel is based on Homer's 'Odyssey', under the ever-fascinating premise that all of Odysseus' extraordinary adventures can be experienced by a modern man in a single day, provided that the writing consists of his mental activity.
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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
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When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is so different from the experience of seeing it.
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Whatever there is of greatness in the United States, or indeed in any other country, is due to labor. The laborer is the author of all greatness and wealth. Without labor there would be no government, no leading class, and nothing to preserve.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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I don't believe in an interventionist God...
