John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

I'm not interested in replicating 'Hedwig' like a virus.

John Cameron Mitchell

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• It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Difficult
  • Name
  • More

• I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Attention
  • Enjoy
  • Pay

• Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Time
  • Civilization
  • Taste

• I cook chicken for a living.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Living
  • Cook
  • Chicken

• I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.

  

  Sam Crawford
  • Book
  • Television
  • Gift

• We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Nothing
  • Because
  • Little

• America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • America
  • Fate
  • Become

• I was much more interested by clothes when I was younger. I'm about being discreet. What they call the French touch, whatever that means. Low profile and somehow elegant without being flashy.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • More
  • Clothes
  • Without

• We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Character
  • Broken
  • Laws

• I don't own cable, but my TV came with a Netflix button.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Own
  • Button
  • Netflix

• Im very nurturing.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Very
  • Nurturing

• My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Music
  • Play
  • Instrument

• I want to produce a country album for a country singer.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Country
  • Want
  • Singer

• We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Time
  • Food
  • Period

• Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Boxing

• The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Business

• There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD.

  

  Anton Corbijn

• Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt. He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds. I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Good
  • Different
  • Miracle

• When you lose, you get up, you make it better, you TRY AGAIN.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Better
  • Lose

• If there is delay in getting culling teams out, delay in any part of the chain, even weeks, that could have great implications for the virus to spread.

  

  David Nabarro
  • Team
  • Spread
  • Delay

• I am very grateful for the dedicated work and intellectual contributions of generations of talented postdocs, students and research assistants without whom none of the work from my laboratory would have been possible.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Work
  • Research
  • Grateful

• I'm not interested in replicating 'Hedwig' like a virus.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell