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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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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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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I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
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When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.
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We're trying to make a movie that's interesting.
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Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.
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There were never as many big businesses as people were piling money into in the late 90's or early 2000's. This is really a lesson to institutional investors about how much capital the market can absorb, and it's a 10-year adjustment cycle, and we're only beginning to wake up to that.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
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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!
