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.

Quentin S. Crisp

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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.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

  

  Mae West
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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.

  

  Pat Robertson
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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.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
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• You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.

  

  Warren Spahn
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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.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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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.

  

  Zaha Hadid
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• It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

  

  Hannah Cowley
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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.

  

  H. G. Wells
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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.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
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• I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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• As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.

  

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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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• I've had a bit of experience at lots and lots of different arenas as it were, some of them completely creative, some of them quite technical. The interesting thing is, is that I found that the technical arenas actually are also very creative or can be very creative.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
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• The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them, … I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.

  

  James Spader
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• While we have a Constitution that is very strong in the sense that we are not gonna have a religion that's sanctioned by the government, it doesn't mean that we need to have a separation between government and religion.

  

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• Make mistakes faster.

  

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• In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal good.

  

  African Spir
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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.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Interesting
  • Fantasy
  • Utopia