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Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.
Clive Barker
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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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By and large I think art is made by people who have discipline married to talent in sufficiently large amounts to work even if they don't feel like it. Anybody can get maudlin and decide to write poetry at 11 at night the question is, can you do it at 8:30 on a Monday morning..?
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There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.
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Why'd you want to sing about sad things? Candy had asked him. Because any fool can be happy, he'd said to her. It takes a man with real heart —he'd made a fist and laid it against his chest— to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
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Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul—and she possesses many—she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way.
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One man's pornography is another man's theology.
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I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
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Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite
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What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once.
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