Quentin Crisp Quotes
I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to 'Hamlet' on the grounds that I knew who won.
Quotes to Explore
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.
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The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women's boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women's boxing fight and then went on to win gold.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
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Lying is the rule, not the exception.
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Positive general principles need always to be supplemented by negative, anecdotal censors. For, it hardly ever pays to alter a general mechanism to correct a particular bug.
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The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
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Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."
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I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to 'Hamlet' on the grounds that I knew who won.
