John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

I think I was scared of the drag thing, as a lot of gay boys are. It's sort of knocked out of you in junior high. I wouldn't find guys who were very feminine attractive. Then, doing 'Hedwig,' I got to be man and woman, really butch and really femme at the same time, and I realized, this is kind of the ideal.

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• There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Life
  • Time
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• After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

  

  Yoko Ono
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• What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
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• People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• It took 23 years from Abraxane being conceived to us showing now with conclusiveness that it works in pancreatic cancer. We cannot afford as a society to wait another 23 years to make sure that the patients get the right care, at the right time, at the right place.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
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• A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.

  

  Sam Worthington
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• Every time, I try to make something different.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
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• My manager called me and said, 'Hey, there's a series at Neflix.' I'm like, 'Netflix? Oh, boy.' At that time, it was just a strange thing to hear. It's like going, 'There's a series at Blockbuster.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.

  

  Samantha Power
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• I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
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• When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

  

  A. P. Herbert
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• Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

  

  Karl Jaspers
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• If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.

  

  Irwin Thomas
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• 'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.

  

  Edgar Wright
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• I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• There are so many women throughout the world who appreciate beautiful design and have the budget to buy designer fashion but sometimes have a hard time finding the things that they really want or that suit their lifestyle or their culture or whatever it may be.

  

  Aslaug Magnusdottir
  • Time
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• There are programs that don't work.

  

  Sam Graves
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• I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Up
  • Morning
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• A lot of the vibe in London is being sucked dry because of the economic situation. It's very expensive, and it gives you nothing back. New York still feels like there's stuff going on. People are struggling to create art. There's still a vibe.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Art
  • New York

• I think I was scared of the drag thing, as a lot of gay boys are. It's sort of knocked out of you in junior high. I wouldn't find guys who were very feminine attractive. Then, doing 'Hedwig,' I got to be man and woman, really butch and really femme at the same time, and I realized, this is kind of the ideal.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
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