Clive Barker Quotes
'Don’t be sentimental,' he chided. 'Memories aren’t enough.'It was fruitless to argue the niceties of that: he was telling her that he was in pain; he didn’t want platitudes or metaphysics.
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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I would love to do some theater.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
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The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
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I give myself a cheat day where I annihilate my diet. I'm an all-American girl, so I go for a burger and fries and a shake.
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If you can't make fun of bad movies on serious subjects, what's the point?
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The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.
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I'm certainly not surprised by the passion of the youth for our myths. Mythology is almost a part of an Indian's DNA.
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It is our interpretation of the past, our limiting beliefs, and our undigested pain that stop us from being able to move forward with clear direction.
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'Don’t be sentimental,' he chided. 'Memories aren’t enough.'It was fruitless to argue the niceties of that: he was telling her that he was in pain; he didn’t want platitudes or metaphysics.
