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I've dealt with a lot of producers who were pricks and I'm determined not to be that.
Clive Barker
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Clive Barker
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 5
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But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy.
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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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You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.
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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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Believe me, when I say There are no two powers That command the soul. One is God The other is the tide. -Anon From the novel Abarat
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Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon Say a prayer for God's good grace And sleep with lore upon your face.
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You'll learn, honey. Love can be the best thing in life. And it can be the worst. The absolute worst.
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We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always.
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I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
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Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of pride. 'Saints we are not.' But then,' said Deaux-Deaux, 'who is?' he thought on this. 'Besides saints.
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I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again - -I swore to myself, I would always be this raw, wet child hereafter.
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..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.
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The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment of Reformation of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages an end, perhaps, to everything.
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Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.
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Sung to the tune of O Christmas Tree O woe is me, O woe is me, I used to have a hamster tree, But it was eaten by a newt, And now I have no cuddly fruit, O woe is me, O woe is me, I used to have a hamster tree!
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Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
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My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.
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You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.
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What worth was a man who could not be haunted?
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Have patience the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.
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