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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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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I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.
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The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
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Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary was beheaded, the people who were watching saw her skirts moving about and they thought her headless body was trying to get itself to its feet. But the movement turned out to be her dog, which she had carried to the block with her, hidden in her skirts. Mary Stuart is supposed to have faced her execution with grace and courage (she wore a scarlet chemise to suggest she was being martyred), but I don’t think she could have been so brave if she had not secretly been holding tight to her Skye terrier, feeling his warm, silky fur against her trembling skin.
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You wake up one day and realize, 'Now, I'm a veteran.' You just wake up one day, and you're like, 'I'm 35, and I've been doing this now for 13 years.'
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I don't think I will ever write about politics or foreign policy. I feel like there is so much good writing in those areas that I have little to add. I also like to steer clear of writing about people whom I do not personally like.
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There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
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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.
