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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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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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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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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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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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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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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If I were to do a sequel, it would be with Sophie as a very old woman and The BFG the same, a bit like that 'Let the Right One' in film.
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The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.
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We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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There are people who do what they believe is right, but as they say, 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions.'
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I don't believe in an interventionist God...
