John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
Obviously, when you get into larger budgets, you have less of that freedom, and I just - I'm not a person that tends to make stories for those larger budgets. To me, it's not much fun to have that kind of pressure.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
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Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
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I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.
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It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians.
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You have to understand the medium you're writing for. People jump into writing musicals without realizing how complicated they are. Knowing one form doesn't necessarily mean you know the other. You have to be comfortable with it.
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It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.
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Obviously, when you get into larger budgets, you have less of that freedom, and I just - I'm not a person that tends to make stories for those larger budgets. To me, it's not much fun to have that kind of pressure.
