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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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.
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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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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'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.
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I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.
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I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.
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When we fight we're going to fight fight, for real fight. He thinks he's the ninja, I'm the ninja- Ninja Gaiden, American ninja, real motherfucking ninja. This ninja martial artist right here-I started that shit.
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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.
