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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I'm in college at North Carolina State University. I'm about to start my sophomore year and have an apartment on campus with three buddies I've grown up with. I get to be normal when I'm there, and then I tour Thursday through Sunday.
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Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.
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Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.
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It's kind of shocking to me, actually, that I've almost been stereotyped, in a way - physically - because, I didn't get good grades in school; I got in a lot of fights. I wear glasses because I don't want something tugging my eyeball, but I wouldn't consider myself a 'nerd.' I don't know what really makes someone a nerd.
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I never even had a MySpace.
