Clive Bell Quotes
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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I do not like violence.
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I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.
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Who you work with is even more important than who you hang out with because you spend a lot more time with your workmates than your friends.
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We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.
