John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

There's nothing more Broadway than 'Hedwig.' It's very family-friendly. There's innuendo and stuff, but not more than you'd see on TV.

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• In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Women
  • Best
  • Path

• There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Freedom
  • Place
  • Traditions

• President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Security
  • Reputation

• I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Army

• A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Think

• I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • God
  • Bad
  • Earth

• It's been tough for me being away from the game.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Game
  • Tough
  • Away

• I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Baseball
  • Lovely
  • Enjoyed

• Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Success

• Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Help
  • Environment
  • Innovation

• I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Bad
  • Support
  • Acting

• My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Country
  • House
  • Couple

• There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Politics
  • Radio
  • Getting

• 'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Loved
  • Negative
  • Been

• The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Political
  • Change
  • Technology

• As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I'd never hurt another person.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Never
  • Hurt
  • Person

• During disasters young children usually take their cues from their parents. As long as their caregivers remain calm and responsive to their needs, they often survive terrible incidents without serious psychological scars.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Children
  • Disasters
  • Psychological Scars

• I used to own a stuffed piranha, but I haven't seen it in years. I don't even know what happened to it. Maybe my wife didn't want it to make the move from the last house to this one.

  

  Brian Posehn
  • House
  • Wife

• When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Society

• To me, desert has the quality of darkness; none of the shapes you see in it are real or permanent. Like night, the desert is boundless, comfortless, and infinite. Like night, it intrigues the mind and leads it to futility. When you have flown halfway across a desert, you experience the desperation of a sleepless man waiting for dawn which only comes when the importance of its coming is lost.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Experience
  • Darkness
  • Desert

• There's nothing more Broadway than 'Hedwig.' It's very family-friendly. There's innuendo and stuff, but not more than you'd see on TV.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Family