Clive Barker Quotes
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
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I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!
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I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
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If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
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And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.
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I remember telling the agent, 'I don't want to do anything but Broadway.' She was like, 'That's not really possible because there is not that much Broadway. So I'll send you out on TV and stuff like that.'
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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
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Sometimes the facts can get in the way of the telling of a good story. But they don't get in the way of the truth.
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Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that 'It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece.'
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Love is not always about ‘everything’s fine’…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn’t always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.
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So he believes. The truth may be more...complex.
