Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
Quincy Jones -
No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
Jackson Browne -
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
A. E. Housman -
When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
Gary Shteyngart -
I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
Madchen Amick -
In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.
Gabrielle Union
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
Pablo Picasso -
Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
Idris Elba -
The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
Washed Out -
I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
Harbhajan Singh -
People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
Karl Pilkington -
When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.
Sam Heughan
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I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
Hannah Simone -
We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.
Candice Olson -
'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.
Zachary Knighton -
I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
Gary Oldman -
If you are good at studies, and you want to play cricket, you may work harder than any other person, but you may not achieve it. So it's something you have to balance in life and be practical where you are good and then channelise your efforts in the right direction to be successful in life.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
Ed Victor
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Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through.
Karen Joy Fowler -
Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
Larry Wilmore -
As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.
Lance Loud -
I'm a risk taker and I've always been like that, especially when it comes to fashion.
Christina Aguilera -
I can be immature. I know I can when I'm at my dance lessons or something. I become like the class clown. I don't know why. But I can flip in and out of it - if I need to be mature I can be mature, but if I want to have a bit of fun, I'll have a bit of fun.
Georgia Groome -
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
Quentin Crisp