John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

I like making art that's useful to people who have a harder road. Art is a tool to get through it; it's a tool to prepare for the worst. By envisioning it in an artistic context, you can make sense of it before and after it happens.

John Cameron Mitchell

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• I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Song
  • Never
  • Pressure

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Good
  • Power
  • Game

• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Struggle
  • Existence

• I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Time
  • School
  • Model

• Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Force

• Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Money
  • Capitalism
  • Throw

• I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Music
  • Always
  • Try

• For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Time
  • Long
  • Friends

• A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Angry
  • Guitar

• I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Smart
  • Fighter

• Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think, 'I'll do it if it works, and if I don't, I can do something else.' That way seems to work for me.

  

  Kate Ashfield
  • People
  • Work
  • Die

• From 16 years old, I wanted to have a baby, that's all I wanted.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Years
  • Baby
  • Old

• Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Sound

• The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Story
  • First
  • Old

• Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Value
  • More
  • Philosophers

• I am so appreciative of all the attention I've gotten, especially since I don't ever consider myself anything more than a fan.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Attention
  • Fan
  • Appreciative

• The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Long
  • Experience

• I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

  

  Donald Cargill
  • Great
  • God
  • Truth

• I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Something

• I want to start really developing more on the film side.

  

  Kenya Barris

• When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Writing
  • Culture

• I like making art that's useful to people who have a harder road. Art is a tool to get through it; it's a tool to prepare for the worst. By envisioning it in an artistic context, you can make sense of it before and after it happens.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
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