John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

I never even had a MySpace.

John Cameron Mitchell

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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.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Work
  • She
  • Earth

• 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.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Religion
  • Politics
  • India

• 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.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Live
  • Soul

• I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Kind
  • Very
  • Loser

• 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.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Man

• I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Think
  • Dark
  • Reflection

• I don't look forward to anything. I take things as they come.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Look
  • Anything
  • Forward

• 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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Famous
  • Theatre

• People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Reading
  • Beach

• Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Real
  • Peace
  • Ignorance

• 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.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Great
  • Business
  • Moving

• We have seen that two heads are better than one when dealing with a mental health problem.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Health
  • Problem
  • Better

• Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Home
  • Experience

• The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • Help
  • Scholars

• I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural.

  

  Nancy Wake
  • Always
  • Natural
  • Very

• 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.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Music
  • Money
  • True

• 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.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Change
  • Celebrity

• The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • World
  • Why
  • Today

• I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language.

  

  Elif Safak
  • Writing
  • Dream
  • English

• Mushy food is a form of sensory deprivation. In the same way that a dark, silent room will eventually drive you to hallucinate, the mind rebels against bland, single-texture foods, edibles that do not engage the oral device.

  

  Mary Roach
  • Mind
  • Food
  • Single

• Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

  

  James M. Barrie
  • Passion

• When I look at a person, or a character, it is in every case the beginning of an endless journey. And I don't suppose I know where that starts. I know that I have to, like every other person, make decisions and have opinions. But I'm real careful to not judge crassly or cheaply someone else's life.

  

  William Hurt
  • Real
  • Character
  • Journey

• There is Throats to be cut, and Works to be done.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Done
  • Cutting
  • Throat

• I never even had a MySpace.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell