Quentin Crisp Quotes
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.
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My musical inclinations are fine and dandy within the confines of my ears and my earphones but don't sit well with others.
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I live in a fantasy world where I think I'm immune to all disease. I don't get sick and haven't had anything major go wrong.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
