Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
I think I'm probably too close to the seventies to be able to analyse them (it?) effectively.
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As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.
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I always put on M.A.C. Prep and Primer before anything.
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Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.
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Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.
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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that it hasn't existed in certain categories: Certain women have made a lot of money... Jennifer Lawrence... is being paid a lot of money, rightfully so, for the franchises she's in.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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A France or a Belgium is not quite a sovereign nation any more, and thus does not have complete control over its national destiny or foreign relations.
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The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.
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I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different.
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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.
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I got a random tattoo the other day. It's a red triangle, which makes everyone think I'm arty, which I'm not. I used to draw red triangles all the time. It must mean something - maybe I don't know it yet. But I'll figure it out.
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I think I'm probably too close to the seventies to be able to analyse them (it?) effectively.
