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 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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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've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
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You can't improvise without a skeletal structure; you can't just go in and start talking. This is a very misunderstood craft because no one else makes movies like this.
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Ten days after my 'one-step' reconstruction, I was on the beach with my daughter.
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It is a fact that princes who try to raise other princes with violence, end up destroying themselves.
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A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own sinister mark. Tanzer's debut is as sharp and polished as any I've seen.
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I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
