John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
-
I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
-
I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
-
I feel there is a big sense of accomplishment and achievement and self worth through what you do no matter what the job, no matter what you decide to dedicate your life to.
-
My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
-
For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
-
With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
-
Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.
-
I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
-
Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
-
Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.
-
Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
-
There's something about some of my favorite musicals that they put me in a sort of heightened state where I feel like I'm floating out of the theater rather than walking out.
-
Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
-
I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
-
I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.
-
Things have changed. Now it's not the outward appearance, it's the inward man that I'm trying to change. And that's the message I bring to the people.
-
The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.
-
John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
-
Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.
-
Dreams are necessary to life.
-
To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.
-
My generation put in a lot more hours playing football after school than kids today. These days, all the football these kids play, they play at their clubs, so the clubs need to work seriously on the basic skills.
-
I have a weird propensity to know what's going to happen in the future.
