John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
I've obviously always been aware of actor-oriented films, being an actor. Altman and Cassavetes were really strong. And then I realized their structures were quite fascinating, too.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.
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Your man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your committed relationship.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I didn't know what was going through my mind.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.
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Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
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I have a very feminine voice when I write, a very womanly point of view. My last name feels strong and powerful. To me, it's almost a bit masculine. I like the dichotomy of the two. Two sides perfectly represented within my name.
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There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.
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The stakes are nothing less than the future of liberal democracy. We are engaged in a new war of ideas, not communism versus capitalism, but authoritarianism versus democracy and representative government.
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My work participates in that really quick and easy and inexpensive material that's part of our culture. In that way, my work engages the means of production that we live with, even while it's classical and embodies some things from a very long time ago.
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Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount.
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I've obviously always been aware of actor-oriented films, being an actor. Altman and Cassavetes were really strong. And then I realized their structures were quite fascinating, too.
