Clive Barker Quotes

I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.

Clive Barker

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• I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • House
  • Feeling
  • Drawing

• What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Good
  • Look
  • Priority

• I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Child

• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Goal

• My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Life
  • Work
  • My Life

• It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.

  

  Randal Kleiser
  • Want
  • Old
  • Test

• I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Movies
  • Paris
  • Cinema

• Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Memories

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

• In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Energy
  • Product
  • Quantity

• With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Friends
  • Try

• I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Music
  • Art
  • Reading

• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • World
  • Important
  • Love

• I love being photographed, I love the ramp.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Being
  • I Love
  • Photographed

• Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Star

• You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.

  

  Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • People
  • Good
  • Book

• These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• If you're at an antiques fair, and have been unable to beat the dealer down earlier in the day, pay a return visit at the end. They may be more inclined to accept your offer, rather than having to pack the piece up and take it home.

  

  Judith Miller
  • Visit
  • Dealer
  • Antiques

• Your brain sends out vibrations all the time, and your thoughts affect your life and other people's. They pick up these thoughts and get changed by them. That's why, say, a pacifist gets caught up in a riot situation. It's a field of vibrations - you can 'feel' someone else's thoughts when close to them.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Break

• My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.

  

  Ellen Gallagher
  • Work
  • Hand

• In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

  

  John Landis
  • Career

• I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.

  

  Clive Barker
  • Experience
  • Brain