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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Big data sets are never complete.
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If you're a lead singer, then you can't afford to be sensitive. On stage, everyone looks at the lead singer, even if you don't want them to - in America, they have those massive follow spots on you all the time; it does your head in. So, if you are a lead singer and you don't toughen up, you're in the wrong job, and you have to get out.
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Hooking up with anybody from your past gets you thinking about things you haven't thought about in a while. It can rekindle dreams.
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What I've learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.
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I don't believe in an interventionist God...
