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There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.

Clive Barker

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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
Actor
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Film Director
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Science Fiction Writer
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City of Liverpool
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So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.
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I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
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