Quentin Crisp Quotes
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
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'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.
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Never give a sucker an even break.
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Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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When you're single and in your 20s, you throw on a pair of jeans and look fabulous.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
