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Clive Barker Quotes

For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to feel remote from and disconnected from the world of deal making.

Clive Barker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: October 5, 1952

Topics

World Think Feel Advantage Deal

You get used to that work mode, get used to always doing something.

Joe Penny

Work Doing You Always Something Get

My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Responsibility Portrait True Paint

Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas.

John Lydon

Future Culture Ideas Youth You Know

It's rare when suddenly a window opens up, and you see a side of a celebrity you've never seen before, good or bad.

Matt Lauer

Good Window You Bad Celebrity Never

I had a bilateral lisp, and I was overweight. I was the kid who played with the flowers on the ground in the outfield during baseball. I was that kid.

Jeffrey Tambor

Baseball Flowers Kid Ground Who Had

For me, growing up in Detroit, scarves meant cold weather. But I remember working in a store, and we had some silk scarves - like, wide scarves with fringe - and because I had seen the English rockers wearing skinny silk scarves, I took the scarves, cut and sewed them, and made them long - almost like a tie.

John Varvatos

Me Growing Up Weather Cold Remember

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.

Alvin Toffler

Future People Choice Turn Out May

When my son was little, he asked me: 'Daddy, which is worser, sugar or salt?' I still don't know the answer.

Tom Frieden

Son Me Salt Sugar Know Little

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

Molly Ivins

Politics Texas Never Anything Saw

The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research.

Jay Inslee

Job People Me Research Meet Half

No ideology is more unacceptable to our way of life than radical Islam. We don't have to live in fear of it. This is an enemy we can defeat.

Jon Keyser

Life Fear Live Enemy Defeat Way

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

Allan Carr

Hate Think Rubbish I Think