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Nick Cave Quotes

When I'm singing 'Deanna,' for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.

Nick Cave

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: australian
Birth: September 22, 1957

Topics

Lie Singing Night Forward Find Kind

My history is that I will create a character, and they will have a book to themselves, and then I'll integrate the character into the larger world of all my books.

Michael Connelly

Character History World Book Create

A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.

Amy Goodman

Money New Off Rather Than Taken

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Soren Kierkegaard

Marriage Weather Wind Connection

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.

Steve Ross

Heart City Me Drive Church Back

London was a spice mecca. The first recipe for curry in English was actually published in 1747.

Tom Parker Bowles

London Spice First Recipe English

If I'm writing a furiously angry scene, I have to consciously snap out of it when I shut down the computer, or I find myself growling at my family.

Ruth Ware

Family Myself Angry Writing Down

I think I have something unique that I'd like to share.

Ruby Dee

Think Unique Share Something Like

I'm pretty sure I peaked at 15.

Mary H.K. Choi

Pretty Sure Peaked

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.

Mohsin Hamid

Television Human Image Human Being

Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted to push in the United States without success but in Iraq they do it.

Juan Cole

Success Push You Tax Know Without

Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.

Joshua Foer

Memory Never Dialogue Take Notes

Now, our Sun will not collapse to a black hole. It's actually not massive enough.

Janna Levin

Sun Black Enough Now Will Hole