Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
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Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
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I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
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Israel says, quite correctly, that changing Israel’s ethnicity would change the idea of Israel. Well, changing America’s ethnicity changes the idea of America, too. Show me in a straight line why we can’t do what Israel does. Is Israel special? For some of us, America is special, too.
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It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.
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As long as I continue to put forth who I am and what I believe, than I think it all balances out.
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I plead for leniency. I understand that the road to redemption is going to be long for me.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
