Clive Barker Quotes
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.
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I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
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Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
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In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
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I have been vain since birth.
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I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.
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I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back.
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I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
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I've always had problems with guys!
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I can't imagine leaving the theatre altogether. My dressing room has become a home from home.
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Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.
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All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face.
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Godhood called, and he went, fleet-footed, to worship at his own altar.
