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People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.

Nick Cave

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Nick Cave
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 22
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