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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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 never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.
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I respect people that find writing easy, because I have focus problems. I'll spend five days eating cereal and YouTubing and two hours writing the article.
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Astronomy is written for astronomers.
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At any given time, no matter how deeply you are in love with one person, they're appealing to a very specific side of you.
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It was disappointing, as if a wish she didn’t know she’d made hadn’t come true.
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I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.
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I never even had a MySpace.
