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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That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.
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Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.'
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If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
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I try and stay away from my comment section on Twitter. But for the most part, the response that I get usually is very positive - and so it's nice.
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Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.
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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.
