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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Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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The best time is during the struggle. The top of the mountain is usually small, freezing and lonesome. To this day I'm continually reinvesting myself in something new. I'm not afraid to start as a beginner in anything.
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I never even had a MySpace.
