John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
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If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist rednecks; it's hard for Red America to recognize that many minorities are legitimately worried about what a Trump presidency means for their family.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
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There is no one single solution to eradicate phishing.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
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Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really. You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy.
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I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.
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When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.
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Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.
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The rules of game shows limit stuff so much. I remember on 'Money From Strangers,' being in the van - not even performing - and there was a lawyer there the entire time. 'No, you can't give money for that. Yes, you can give money for that. That's a partial answer. That's a full answer.'
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I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.
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It's not a selfish desire, growing a beard, but maybe I need to not have the beard, and it'll bring us more wins.
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Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.
