John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
I was brought up very Catholic, and the character of Tommy Gnosis got his name from there.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
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True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
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Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.
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People around the world now complain about stressors everyday, and the word shows up throughout professional and lay literature. But in reality there is no such thing as a stressor. Why not? Because nothing has the inherent power to provoke stress.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.
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I'm competitive at everything.
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I was brought up very Catholic, and the character of Tommy Gnosis got his name from there.
