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Hamlet got a gun now.

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Nick Cave
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 22
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Nicholas Edward Cave
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He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.
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Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.
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A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer.
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Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.
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The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
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We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.
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