Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab.
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I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.
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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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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts.
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Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.
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The proper school to learn art is not life but art.
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I was never no, never no, never enough, But I can try, I can try to toughen up.
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I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.
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I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.
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there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singing but more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness
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I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab.
