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1. Kajizil
   6 years ago Permalink

   Crisp was the role model (and appears in the music video) for Sting's single "Englishman in New York", which includes the lyric "be yourself no matter what they say". Sting described Crisp in an interview as "one of the most courageous men I've ever met". He and Sting worked together in The Bride (). John Hurt portrays Crisp in An Englishman in New York (), a biographical movie.

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2. Goltidal
   6 years ago Permalink

   Jan 25,  · He appeared with surprising regularity in odd places in pop culture: He was the subject of Sting’s hit song An Englishman in New York, his voice and image were used in the advertising campaign for Calvin Klein’s groundbreaking gender-neutral perfume CK-One, and he performed as Queen Elizabeth I in the film Orlando. (He claimed that in New York, if you simply stood still long enough.

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3. Akilmaran
   6 years ago Permalink

   Quentin Crisp was an English writer, artist's model, actor and raconteur known for his memorable and insightful witticisms. He became a gay icon in the s after publication of his memoir The Naked Civil Servant brought to the attention of the general public his defiant exhibitionism and longstanding refusal to conceal his homosexuality.

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4. Kajirg
   6 years ago Permalink

   Quentin Crisp was born on Christmas Day in Sutton, a suburb of London. After leaving school he became an illustrator and a designer of book covers before spending the next 35 years of his life as an artists' model. In he moved to New York City and became a resident alien, living in a one bedroom flat in Chelsea which he famously never 3/5(1).

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5. Mikakus
   6 years ago Permalink

   Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt; () 25 December – () 21 November ) was an English writer, raconteur and actor.. From a conventional suburban background, Crisp wore make-up and painted his nails. During his teenage years he worked briefly as a diamarbtagdeurelamichendcotutinho.coinfo then spent 30 years as a professional model for life-classes in art diamarbtagdeurelamichendcotutinho.coinfo: Denis Charles Pratt, 25 December , Sutton, .

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6. Taujas
   6 years ago Permalink

   The Naked Civil Servant is the autobiography of Quentin Crisp, a gay man who came out in and lived his life with a flamboyance defiant of the time. The book is filled with tales, spanning many decades, of his various careers (despite lack of skill), and friends who "were anyone who could put .

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   6 years ago Permalink

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8. Kazralabar
   6 years ago Permalink

   Enjoy this fantastic interview! An audio CD copy of this interview, and other Quentin Crisp recordings, is available at Pacifica Radio Archives. There is a new section titled Interviews with Quentin Crisp. It is an ongoing archive of interviews spanning over the years. Read some interviews with: Ian Ayres of the literary journal Van Gogh's Ear.

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