John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

I don't like being choreographed to a T. I like to take steps and make them my own.

John Cameron Mitchell

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• I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Creativity
  • Creative
  • Create

• I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.

  

  Taran Killam
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Laugh

• Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Real
  • Best
  • Thought

• I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and that's why I'm here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with people's passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Why
  • True

• I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Field
  • Plantation
  • Cane

• I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.

  

  Tara Lynne Barr
  • Girl
  • Same
  • Lucky

• Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Always
  • Grace
  • State

• I think you have to be careful. You have to know exactly what is going to resonate with voters. And you can't get ahead of that. You have to be very careful with your approach.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Think
  • You
  • Know

• I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Know

• High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • School
  • High
  • College

• The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Power
  • Democracy
  • Through

• I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

  

  Wendy Carlos
  • You
  • Wish
  • Lifetime

• The truth is I am not a very hands-on political wife; I don't get involved in day-to-day Downing Street life. They don't need me interfering, but in the evening, we will talk about each other's day. I try to stay out of the Westminster village. There are times when I will be surprised and curious about what's been announced.

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Political

• I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Heart
  • Want
  • Me

• I am a local economic revitalization strategist. But I am also a TV/radio host, and a small business owner. I find ways to use money more efficiently to realize positive goals for everyone.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Money
  • Business
  • Small

• The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - how to observe - what symptoms indicate improvement - what the reverse - which are of importance - which are of none - which are the evidence of neglect - and of what kind of neglect.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Important
  • Kind
  • Improvement

• I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Friends
  • Letters
  • Aids

• When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.

  

  James Van Der Beek

• The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and preposterous optimism that held that such truths were in fact discoverable, its dazzling sophistication and its occasional startling innocence; an age in which geographical and scientific discoveries surpassed anything previously dreamt of, and yet an age in which it was still, just barely, possible to believe in mermaids and unicorns - these remarkable traits so characterized the British 18th century

  

  Caroline Alexander
  • World
  • Age
  • Passion

• In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.

  

  Carlos Alvarez
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Short

• I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.

  

  James Thomson
  • Good

• I don't like being choreographed to a T. I like to take steps and make them my own.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell