John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.
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Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
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My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.
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I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.
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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
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I'm a bed monster.
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I go round and round in circles, really, really fast, on a big wooden bowl.
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I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.
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In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
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Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.
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You end up making a home in every place you're at, in a small way. In any way you can find a kind of mindfulness.
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I write in what we call Hiberno-English, and it would be disastrous to lose my literary accent, as both Joyce and Beckett began to do in exile. In their case the unique tone of voice they each unwittingly adopted only made for a deeper poetic intensity; I suspect if I were to undergo a similar loss the result would not be so productive.
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We see clear signs that youth use of electronic cigarettes has reached an epidemic proportion.
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My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.
