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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.


Quentin Crisp

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QUENTIN TARANTINO I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
QUENTIN BLAKE When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my o...
QUENTIN TARANTINO My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a ...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea...
QUENTIN TARANTINO The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzli...
QUENTIN BRYCE In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at....
QUENTIN TARANTINO I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I've always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
QUENTIN TARANTINO Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
QUENTIN TARANTINO The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey ...
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