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 That is very outdated.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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When I was 12, I was doing competitive jazz, tap and ballet in Michigan. The studio put the best dancers together, and I joined that. We always did really, really well in local competitions.
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I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.
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This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
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My goal has always been, from the time I was at drama school, about longevity.
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I was brought up very Catholic, and the character of Tommy Gnosis got his name from there.
