Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
I would say that, apart from being a writer, I have also always been very conscious of the idea of a 'world elsewhere'.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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That's the great thing with the WWE. They want you to be like John Cena, they want you to be like The Rock, and they definitely give you that platform.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?
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Escapism has its place. I used to write 'Conan the Barbarian' for Marvel, which takes place in an environment completely removed from the real world.
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A move to a different town or school gives us new places to explore, new people to meet; a lost pet means we have to organize a careful search; baby-sitting requires looking out for dangers a young child can't foresee; a car crash or fire demands that we get help immediately.
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Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.
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They have repeated their arguments but the substantive position has not changed.
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I would say that, apart from being a writer, I have also always been very conscious of the idea of a 'world elsewhere'.
