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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Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
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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.
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I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I can either choose to stop and acknowledge it, or put it off and hope that it won't fade away. 'That Wasn't Me' is no exception - it came together more quickly than any other song I have ever constructed on my own.
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With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not. Sometimes I'd find myself bursting into tears for no reason.
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Buddha didn’t teach that life hurts because of pain; it hurts because the cause of suffering hasn’t been examined.
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She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!
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Just because your body is losing inches doesn't mean you're losing weight or vice versa. It's not about the weight: it's about building lean muscle, which is going to increase your metabolism and then allow you to lose weight quicker.
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I'm not interested in replicating 'Hedwig' like a virus.
