Quentin Crisp Quotes
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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There is always pressure in football.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?
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All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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I am a recovering narcissist. I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it. It is actually drearier than self-love; it is unrequited self-love.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
