Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
Yo-Yo Ma
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler
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In my personal life, I really like the look of vests. I wear fitted, business ones, and perfectly preppy sweater vests that I can knit myself.
Hannah Kearney
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
Rachele Brooke Smith
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!
J. D. Souther
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
Rachel Weisz
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
Kate Winslet
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
Cab Calloway
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
Manuel Puig
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While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.
Sam Wood
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I think it's frightening for all of us to contemplate that there's more to the universe than just us, in whatever form it takes, that there are higher forces at work, and to me, that's always a scary notion.
Jason Blum
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When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.
Ella Purnell
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I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
Cillian Murphy
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I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.
Anthony Michael Hall
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Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds.
Bahá'u'lláh
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I never went to church as a child. I did not .
Quentin S. Crisp
