Clive Barker Quotes

'Hellraiser' was what 'Hellraiser' was. It was a $900k movie, and there wasn't anything I would have done differently. But 'Nightbreed' was taken away from me. It was thought that its meaning wasn't... Its meaning didn't chime with the producers.

Clive Barker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn't make some earnest attempt to include their own honest humanity in their collaboration with an author. It's so ugly to me that it hurts sometimes to see it happen.

Jim Parrack

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I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.

Andre Leon Talley

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From fear to bonding with the audience to getting more open - that's what standup is. It humanises you.

Maysoon Zayid

FearYouMoreOpenAudienceBonding

From my quarter-a-century experience as a fighter for democracy, there is never a final victory for democracy. It is always a struggle in every generation, and you have to take up the course of time and time again.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

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You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

Tony Kushner

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There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.

Marvin Hamlisch

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Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to get out of that place. Come to the city where there are opportunities.

Mohsin Hamid

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I do say things in a way that is going to elicit a response from people.

Milo Yiannopoulos

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Nudity is no big deal as a German. It's all rather normal and boring.

Juergen Teller

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When I went to college, I really became interested in cultural anthropology. Our behavior isn't that different from other primate species'.

Jon Taffer

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Acting and the industry of making movies is beautiful, but it's so exhausting and such hard work; if you don't absolutely 100% want to do something, it defeats the purpose.

Debby Ryan

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But doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?

David Shuster

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