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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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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One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
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I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
