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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A critical feature of the EU(European Union) in general and EMU in particular is that there is no legitimate way for a member to withdraw... The American experience with the secession of the South may contain some lessons about the danger of a treaty or constitution that has no exits.
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When I'm not working, I don't do lots of glamorous things.
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I'm very tough. Come to a council meeting, and you'll see it.
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To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind.
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It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make a difference because it seemed like such a lot of people so, yes I would have to say that it has done.
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Nowadays, the term 'selling out' doesn't exist anymore because everyone is trying to make a living.
