John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
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It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
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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.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I cook chicken for a living.
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I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
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We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
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I don't own cable, but my TV came with a Netflix button.
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Im very nurturing.
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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.
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I want to produce a country album for a country singer.
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We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.
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Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!
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Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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Sorry, I don't do castles. I hate those winding turret stairs.
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The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.
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A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated
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Homoeopathy is supposed to work miracles.
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I'm not interested in replicating 'Hedwig' like a virus.