Quentin Crisp Quotes
In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
Quentin Crisp
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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.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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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.
T. C. Boyle
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
Vera Farmiga
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
D. H. Lawrence
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
Cameron Russell
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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.
Padgett Powell
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My first company failed completely. And it failed at about ten months old. I had about 12 months of savings, so when it failed I was thinking: 'Do I go back to work?' And at that point I believed so deeply in what I was doing that I couldn't imagine anything else other than trying to make this business work.
Kathryn Minshew
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
Warren Littlefield
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The actors feel that the music played before the curtain rises will put the audience in the wrong mood. The playwright suggests that the (purposefully lugubrious) music be played at twice-speed. This peps it up somewhat while retaining its essentially dark and gloomy character. The actors listen carefully, and are pleased.
Donald Barthelme
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Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. … Whenever the Westerner hears the word 'psychological,' it always sounds to him like 'only psychological.'
Carl Jung
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I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.
Ana Gasteyer
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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!
Quentin Crisp
