Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
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The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
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Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
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Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
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I don't watch much television.
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Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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People can talk about punk all they want, but after new wave put that down, metal is the voice of the disenfranchised and that need to become unhinged. That's why it appeals to so many people when they are younger and carries over when those people, at 40, don't want to grow up.
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Randomly enough, my older sisters went to a makeup school when they were younger, so they're all really good at it. They've always told me that 'natural is better.'
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
