John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

I studied meditation, knowing it would be a huge new calming skill.

John Cameron Mitchell

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• I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Lost
  • City
  • Radio

• 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.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Live
  • Women
  • Character

• The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Waiting
  • Opportunities

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• I play as I feel.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Play
  • Feel
  • I Feel

• 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.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Good
  • Music
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Door
  • Speed

• I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Think
  • Proud
  • Acting

• Our sport probably has the best history and tradition of being engaged in international competition.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • History
  • Best
  • Competition

• The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Event
  • Attempt

• One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Great
  • Things
  • Friendship

• 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.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Power
  • Service

• 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.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Pain

• The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Mind
  • True

• 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.

  

  Ian Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• You don't see your prison because its bars are invisible.

  

  Dan Millman

• You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

  

  Clarence Day
  • People

• There cannot be a new religion. Religion is a continuous living process within us which is our sustenance. It's like a ladder on which we climb, leaving one by one, step by step - but not leaving the ladder. All others are required.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Life
  • Nature

• I hate to say this. ..it's made to order. Then, I disorder it a little bit or, I should say, I reorder it. I wouldn't be so presumptuous to claim that I had the ability to disorder it. I wish I did.

  

  Frank Stella
  • Hate
  • Wish

• Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it.

  

  Joseph Howe
  • Power
  • Judge
  • Privilege

• If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Heaven

• I studied meditation, knowing it would be a huge new calming skill.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Meditation