Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. That means new technologies.
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I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.
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The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a vote, but also that the minority needs to yield to the wishes of the majority.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
