John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
Nowadays, the term 'selling out' doesn't exist anymore because everyone is trying to make a living.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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People want you to fail.
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I am not a big facial person. But I do love a body scrub.
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Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by nuance and complexity. That's when the Curse of Knowledge kicks in, and we start to forget what it's like not to know what we know.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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I moved out to Los Angeles a fan of many people, and meeting people I put on a pedestal that just disappointed me. Without fans, this business would not exist, so I try and say that we're all on the same level.
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Nowadays, the term 'selling out' doesn't exist anymore because everyone is trying to make a living.
