Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
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I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.
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We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
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Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
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In a weird way, hockey is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one.
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I like a challenge. I like doing things that scare me.
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I still love a variety of kinds of music.
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I've really tried to use the power of film to effect change.
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You pass the old L.A. County jail, which is surprisingly beautiful. It's got a handsome stone facade and stately columns. The new L.A. County jail - called The Twin Towers - isn't beautiful at all; it's a stucco panopticon the color of sick flesh.
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It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.
