Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
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Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.
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Everyone his own cinematographer. His own stream-of-consciousness e-mail poet. His own nightclub DJ. His own political columnist. His own biographer of his top-10 friends!
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I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.
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I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.
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Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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I can't perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it'll distract from the whole persona.
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I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.
