Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
You might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
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The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired.
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Some people came up with story lines where Colonel Potter moves in with Klinger, and we become a 1950s' odd couple. I said, 'Come on, let's do something significant.'
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I started in the theater world in New York City - and indie films - and I love the feeling of your head coming together and trying to tell a simple story, a small story, and just getting that vibe of storytelling without all the craziness of big budget.
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My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.
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You might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me.
