Clive Barker Quotes

One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.

Clive Barker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ExperienceChaosWorldThinkTrying

I know how to make decisions, and I know how to lead.

Jim Webb

DecisionsKnowLeadMakeHow

All space exploration is risky. As an astronaut, I had to decide each and every time I went to space whether or not to risk my life for the mission.

John M. Grunsfeld

LifeTimeSpaceMy LifeMission

I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.

Amanda Pays

RedConversationSayDiningRoom

I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.

Stan Laurel

MyselfDreamFindUpWokeAwake

My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that.

Tom Stoppard

LifeMy LifeHotOffPursuits

It's always good to be out there with your teammates, working with your teammates in individual drills, team drills, just being out there, getting on the same page, just getting into flow with them.

Rob Gronkowski

GoodTeamPageTeammatesFlowOut

Perhaps it should be obvious: Adultery is a social threat that arouses raw anger and fear, which the bellicose then need to discharge rather than merely feel, traditionally on the philandering wife or the female home-wrecker.

Mary Gaitskill

FearWifeAngerFeelNeedSocial

My son, he has a film group, a bunch of film nerds that sit around and screen movies, and when they had Mary Steenburgen Night, the two movies they screened were 'Melvin And Howard' and 'Clifford.'

Mary Steenburgen

SonNightMoviesGroupTwoSit

When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.

Michel Gondry

GoodThinkPicturePushDoingWorth

In Israel, I think I have the image of an 'Ashkenazi woman' as a stereotype. Someone once told me that I look like a deodorant commercial. But my appearance is misleading; I can be emotionally aggressive, too, and in 'Law and Order,' I once played a murderer. I see no limitations. I see both my toughness and the softness.

Mili Avital

WomanMeLawThinkSomeoneLook

I am convening the African Leaders Forum on Disability in partnership with Special Olympics so that a marginalized population long unrecognized does not remain in the shadows. I consider this a critical, moral and practical challenge.

Joyce Banda

ChallengeI AmLongPartnership

Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.

Jason Alexander

WonderfulThingsMadeHappenedJerry

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