Quentin Crisp Quotes
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
Natalia Tena
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
Kate Mulgrew
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
Kate Burton
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Walt Whitman
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
Ed Weeks
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
W. C. Fields
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
Earl Nightingale
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
Mae West
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
Calvin Trillin
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
Uzo Aduba
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When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.
Cara Delevingne
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
Mahesh Babu
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When you're working in cinema, you often have a very, very compressed schedule - very few weeks to just kind of go through that whole process of reflection and refining - and it has to be done.
Max Richter
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When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
Mason Cooley
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Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
Vincent Bugliosi
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It has been a dream of mine to be a singer, and now I'm living this dream, singing some beautiful songs and winning people's hearts with my voice.
Armaan Malik
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The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. Im on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.
Thomas Kinkade
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
Quentin Crisp
