Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
1977 was also, of course, the year that Derek Jarman made his iconoclastic film Jubilee, which was so much part of the punk movement.
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.
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My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court over the years.
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I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.
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Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.
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I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.
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Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.
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1977 was also, of course, the year that Derek Jarman made his iconoclastic film Jubilee, which was so much part of the punk movement.
