Nick Cave Quotes

What I'm resistant to is the 'Walk the Line' biopic, where you have this redemptive life done in two hours. It just doesn't wash with me. I've been there and things don't work out that way.

Nick Cave

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LifeWorkWalkMeYouDone

As a Midlander and a big walker, I'd always loved ridge and furrow fields, the plough-marked land as it was when it was enclosed. It is the landscape giving you a story of lives that ended with the arrival of sheep.

Jim Crace

StoryLovedGivingLandscapeSheep

For the Yupik, all life was continuous, animal with human with 'spirit', and recognising that continuum allowed them to undergo transformations that we, locked into our own disappointingly Cartesian skins, find impossible even to imagine.

John Burnside

LifeAnimalImpossibleFindSpirit

I've been inspired by Coco Chanel. She broke all the rules of her time when she was designing. She pretty much revolutionized the way that women dressed at the time, and in doing that, she modernized the way they looked because they could move more freely in their clothes.

Maureen Chiquet

WomenTimeDoingClothesRulesWay

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

Stanley Donen

ChildhoodHappySmallStoryLong

Deep in my heart, I care about social-justice warriors.

Milo Yiannopoulos

HeartDeepCareWarriorsAbout

The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.

Luciano Pavarotti

LifeMusicPassionPlaceMy OwnOwn

I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president.

Jonah Goldberg

CoolThinkBetterPresidentThan

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.

Denzel Washington

WorkAgeWomanFindingYouYoung

It was incredible to have J Dilla in your dining room making beats - it was one of the greatest experiences I've had.

Common

DiningRoomExperiencesGreatestHad

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

Corazon Aquino

FreedomPeopleHelpYouTreasure

Be your own person and don't listen to anyone who says differently. We are all unique!

Ariel Winter

UniquePersonListenOwnDifferently

There is good and there is bad, and then there are mothers.

Ali Fazal

GoodBadMothersThen

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