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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I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.
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One thing that is constantly on my iPod is India Arie - I like her a lot; I listen to her a lot. I think she is just a spectacular artist.
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I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room.
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Out of time we cut 'days' and 'nights', 'summers' and 'winters.' We say what, each part of the sensible continuum is, and all these abstract whats are concepts. The intelletual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a conceptual order for the persceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
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I don't believe in an interventionist God...
