John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
I sometimes buy albums that I don't like now, but that I know I will like. Coming out was the same thing. In high school, I thought, 'I know I'm going to have to deal with this, but I'm not confident enough now.' But when I finally did, my whole life changed.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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They say Mars absolves the warrior from the crimes of war, but those who were not the warriors, those for whom the war was said to be fought, even though they never wanted it to be fought, who absolves them?
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Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people can learn things and relativise things.
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The better the acting is, the less visible the director and the less visible the actor.
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Words themselves are the intimate attire of thoughts and feelings.
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I sometimes buy albums that I don't like now, but that I know I will like. Coming out was the same thing. In high school, I thought, 'I know I'm going to have to deal with this, but I'm not confident enough now.' But when I finally did, my whole life changed.
