Quentin Crisp Quotes
In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
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We are driven by providing technology to enterprise customers.
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Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to create such a unique film. So, reading the script, I had no idea what it was gonna be.
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Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with.
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I hope that when people with Down's see me, they will be inspired to do more than they think they can.
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There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.
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It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.
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A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
