John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

I think it helped me like myself more, playing Hedwig.

John Cameron Mitchell

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• My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.

  

  Usain Bolt
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• You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Time
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• Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
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• There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
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• This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

  

  Paracelsus
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• The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

  

  Gary Wolf
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• My mother and my sister are big Jon Snow fans.

  

  Carice van Houten
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• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Time
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• I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.

  

  Patrick Marber
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• Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• I'm not afraid of a big studio film; I trust my instincts. But for me, it's not really about box office. It's about looking back on your work and not having to apologize for it.

  

  F. Gary Gray
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• I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

  

  Zubin Mehta
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• It's been quite the experience for two brothers who were Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, who had no idea that they were going to end up in the entertainment industry. To be where we are now, making features, TV shows and getting a hundred million views online is kind of an amazing thing.

  

  Rafi Fine
  • Up
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• Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.

  

  Ted Nugent
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• Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
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• Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• Life is a waste of woes, And Death a river deep, That ever onward flows, Troubled, yet asleep.

  

  William Batchelder Greene
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• But 'Hey Dude' was shot in Arizona, and that took me to the West Coast. We did 65 episodes. It was not a show that a ton of people saw, so it was like doing acting classes and getting paid for it. At that point I had the acting bug. So I went to L.A. to give it a try and never left.

  

  Christine Taylor
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• For cubic U I didn't know how it all got started at all.

  

  Utada Hikaru
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  • Got

• The exciting thing about Bleachers and fun. are they're different, and they're aesthetically different in many ways. But it's also like my role is very different, and that's cool.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Cool

• Springsteen's 'Thunder Road' and Carole King's 'It's Too Late' are examples of why I am a singer/songwriter. I practice these songs every day. The melodies are timeless in the rock world, the lyrics are words that I need to say, and they need to be heard again.

  

  Alice Ripley
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• I think it helped me like myself more, playing Hedwig.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell