Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
I also remember a line from a song by Smog [Bill Callahan], which seems to describe the experience of a town-dweller moving to the country: "I was raised in a pit of snakes/Blink your eyes - I was raised on cake."
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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All my books are optimistic!
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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I get homesick.
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.
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I don't really yell at people.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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I feel more comfortable in saris than gowns.
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I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up documentary journalism.
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We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
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I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
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I told my extremely conservative, uber-traditional Korean father, 'Hey, Dad, I know what I want to do for the rest of my life. I want to be an actor.'
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I also remember a line from a song by Smog [Bill Callahan], which seems to describe the experience of a town-dweller moving to the country: "I was raised in a pit of snakes/Blink your eyes - I was raised on cake."
