John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
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I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.
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Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I play as I feel.
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I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
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Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.
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I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
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Our sport probably has the best history and tradition of being engaged in international competition.
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The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
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One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
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I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives have shaped them and impacted them to be who they are, it's something. I mean, that's my entire life.
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Our power creates collective production in the service of the people and the revolution, destroys exploiting production, transforms individualistic producers into producers integrated into the collectivity.
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Give me love, like herCos lately I've been waking up alone.The pain splatters teardrops on my shirt.I told you I'd let them go.
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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Pushing people forward simply because of their colour, irrespective of merit, would be most unfortunate and would of course lead to disaster. It would mean that Rhodesia would then develop into a kind of banana republic where the country would in no time be bankrupt.
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You don't see your prison because its bars are invisible.
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You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
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What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.
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When one learns a different way of dealing with the situation, one no longer has to have a purpose. One is not on the way to somewhere. Or rather, one is on the way and one is also at the destination at the same time. That is really what meditation is for.
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Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
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There was a time when I was in the South, singing, and someone came to me before the show and said, 'There's been a threat on your life. Someone had phoned in and said they were going to shoot you if you go on stage.' I was singing 'Chances Are,' and I kept moving so they wouldn't have a shot at me.
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I studied meditation, knowing it would be a huge new calming skill.
