Nick Cave Quotes
I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.
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Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
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I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.
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You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
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I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.
