John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I don't look forward to anything. I take things as they come.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
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You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
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We have seen that two heads are better than one when dealing with a mental health problem.
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Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural.
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I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don't want that. I just want to be true. I want to be... I want to serve music. I want to be honest.
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The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you - to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.
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The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
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Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future. And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.
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Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.
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Cara, ever since you told me at the age of four that you wanted to be Claudia Schiffer, while you were naked in the bath with a sponge on your head, I knew you were destined for great things.
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You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.
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I never even had a MySpace.
