Quentin Crisp

Person · Open Library

Born

1908-12-25

Died

1999-11-21

Works

22

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1908-12-25

Active to

1999-11-21

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

3,168

Total plays

9,515

Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt on 25 December 1908; died 21 November 1999) was an English writer, humorist and actor. From the mid-1970s his one-man stage show was a long-running hit both in Britain and America and he also appeared in films and on television. The British musician Sting dedicated his 1987 song "Englishman in New York" to Crisp (who moved to New York City in 1981). Two albums were released on Cherry Red Records "An Evening with Quentin Crisp" (2008) and "Miniatures 1 & 2"

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Transformers: State-of-the-Art Natural Language Processing

   · 2020 · cited 4,961x

2. Global burden of NAFLD and NASH: trends, predictions, risk factors and prevention

   · 2017 · cited 4,741x

3. Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

   · 2016 · cited 4,417x

4. Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world

   · 2010 · cited 4,201x

5. The GeneMANIA prediction server: biological network integration for gene prioritization and predicting gene function

   · 2010 · cited 4,081x

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Quotes

• “Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.”
• “I have come to think that both sex and politics are a mistake and that any attempt to establish a connection between the two is the greatest error of all.”
• “A pinch of notoriety will do.”
• “Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.”
• “The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster [homosexuality] whose shape and size were not yet known or even guessed at. It was thought to be Greek in origin, smaller than socialism but more deadly, especially to children.”
• “Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.”

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Key facts

Born

Denis Charles Pratt , ( 1908-12-25 ) 25 December 1908, Sutton , Surrey, England

Died

21 November 1999 (1999-11-21) (aged 90), Manchester , England

Occupation

Writer, illustrator, actress, artist's model

Notable works

The Naked Civil Servant

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