John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
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I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
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I'd like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation.
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I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.
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I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.
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When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.
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'I'm giving this to Eeyore,' he explained, 'as a present. What are you going to give?' 'Couldn't I give it too?' said Piglet. 'From both of us?' 'No,' said Pooh. 'That would not be a good plan.'
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A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
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Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others.
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If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all.
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... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.
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I've always liked a good joke that everybody can laugh at.
