Clive Barker Quotes
The monsters act out our rage. They act on their worst impulses, which is appealing to a certain part of us. They get punished for it, but we've enjoyed the spectacle of their liberation.
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A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn't have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.
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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
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I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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I like to race, not to do laps alone.
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On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.
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I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.
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Be yourself. The world worships the original.
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
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I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.
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In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
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Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.
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If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.
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that the highly praised handsomeness of my little son had disappeared and in its place was a monstrosity completely covered with pox blisters. Can you imagine how I felt?
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I love to cook and I know a lot of people watching love those segments, but so often they feel rushed to me. If we give 'em a bit more time to breathe, people will get more out of them.
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The monsters act out our rage. They act on their worst impulses, which is appealing to a certain part of us. They get punished for it, but we've enjoyed the spectacle of their liberation.
