Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms.
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We were descended from royalty.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
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I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
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It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
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When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.
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If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she's about than I do.
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A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
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The most important thing I've done at work has been to surround myself with amazing people who I trust and empower fully to do stuff better than I could.
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What a team, what a team. I drove it like I stole it.
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People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
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This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it. Clearly, the highest loyalty we should have is not to our own country or our own religion or our hometown or even to ourselves. It should be to, number two, the family of man, and number one, the planet at large. This is our home, and this is all we've got.
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If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms.
