Nick Cave Quotes

What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.

Nick Cave

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VisionSongYouHollywoodListen

I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.

Robert Rodriguez

DayDoneSleepingHalfGetSpend

I don't walk into a dinner party and say, 'You're an idiot; give me my coat.'

Don Rickles

WalkMeDinnerIdiotYouParty

At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.

Diane Cilento

FunnySchoolNameYouBackPretty

I don't know how you prepare for something like that. I cannot imagine living in a fishbowl like that. I don't live here so I don't know it will be that bad anyway because I live in Paris and we don't have that sort of phenomenon there. So I don't know, we'll see what happens.

Diane Kruger

LiveYouBadParisKnowLiving

I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.

Doris Lessing

DaughterGreatAfricaTwoGrandson

I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.

Che Guevara

MeFaceEarthMoreWorthyCommon

I don't really like watching myself - it isn't necessarily one of my favourite things to do.

Brett Kelly

MyselfWatchingThingsLikeReally

Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.

Pete Waterman

GreatPeopleRealityEditingThose

Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.

Sherman Alexie

AngryThinkWayEmotionBeen

It's the same as Keith Richards. People still ask him the same questions they asked him 30 years ago, even though he's a completely different person. And I'm a completely different person than I was 15 years ago.

Scott Weiland

PeopleQuestionsPersonAskHim

One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil.

Timothy Noah

EvilHatredImagineViolentReduce

One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.

Lincoln Steffens

FatherMorningImprovementExperience

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