Quentin Crisp Quotes
When stripped, I looked less like 'Il David' than a plucked chicken that died of myxomatosis.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.
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As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.
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I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.
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The view of Earth is spectacular.
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I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.
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I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
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But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most.
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I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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I have a variety of styles. I don't stick to one particular style.
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Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
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You don't have any civil liberties if you're dead.
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It was nice to have a break from acting - there's a lot more to life than acting. And that's important - to be a good actor, you have to know that and to live that.
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I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.
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Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food.
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Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn't flamboyant; I was actually quite reticent most of the time. But if I felt I had to do something, I did it.
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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
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When stripped, I looked less like 'Il David' than a plucked chicken that died of myxomatosis.
