Quentin Crisp Quotes
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
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I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story.
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There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
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I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.
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The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.
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It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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That is the fourth course, which in future I trust the right hon. Gentleman (Sir R. Peel) will not forget. The right hon. Gentleman tells us to go back to precedents; with him a great measure is always founded on a small precedent. He traces the steam-engine always back to the tea-kettle. His precedents are generally tea-kettle precedents.
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If you give the audience what they want when they want how they want it, they won't steal it.
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The anti-Japanese resistance was as familiar a theme in North Korean cinema as cowboys and Indians was in early Hollywood.
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If you have truly been born again, it was the Holy Spirit who convicted you of sin and drew you into a relationship with Jesus.
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My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.
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Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.
