Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
To me the seventies represent normality, and, of course, it is a normality that is now anachronistic.
Quentin S. Crisp
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One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.
Samuel Dash
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We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.
Oscar Wilde
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My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.
Angie Dickinson
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Happy for America, happy for Europe, perhaps for the world when, on the delivery of Cornwallis's sword to the illustrious, the immortal Washington, or rather by his order, to the brave Lincoln, the sun of Liberty and Independence burst through a sable cloud, and his benign influence was, almost instantaneously, felt in our remotest corners!
Deborah Sampson
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From the day of the Declaration, the people of the North American union, and of its constituent states, were associated bodies of civilized men and Christians, in a state of nature, but not of anarchy.
John Quincy Adams
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'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats
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Very often when I haven't faith in my faith, I have to have faith in His faith. He makes me believe in myself and my possibilities, when I simply can't. I have to rise to His faith in me.
E. Stanley Jones
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I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic value to me, by seeing what low, paltry, personal motives and base machinery and dirty hands have helped to bring them about.
Fanny Kemble
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I write out of my intellectual experience.
Tom Stoppard
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What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.
Stephen Curry
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I have notebooks and sketchbooks for ideas. I also have drawers full of envelopes covered in quick outlines, scenes or scraps of dialogue that I don't want to forget. I tend to grab whatever's to hand and just get the thing down before it's lost. It's not what you would call a streamlined system.
Steven Hall
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I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.
Quentin Crisp
