Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
I associate my childhood with two things, mainly: the North Devon countryside and a sense of connection to another world.
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
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My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of death.
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When I heard BB King's 'Sweet Sixteen,' I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.
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When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.
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I associate my childhood with two things, mainly: the North Devon countryside and a sense of connection to another world.
