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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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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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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Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.
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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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Some people are cool, some are cold. Many are down to earth, while a select few are divas.
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I don't like being left to my own thoughts.
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Matt Ryan does a great job of throwing the ball. No quarterback within the 20 to 25 yard range is throwing the ball any better than Matt Ryan.
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Theater, for me, is no longer a conversation about how we destroy each other; it's much more about how we may be destroying everyone else.
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The other girls were so comfortable with their bodies and it eventually rubbed off on me.
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I never even had a MySpace.
