John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
'Hedwig' isn't particularly based on me, but I think that it is autobiographical in terms of emotion.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.
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I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
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I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation.
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I liked being CEO of Blockbuster, but my job is to put it on the bottom line for shareholders.
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My first job as premier will be to go back to basics.
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An aristocrat in morals as in mind.
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Each of them was intimately aware of the procedure for electing a pope-not only of the antiquated mechanisms, of course, but of the politicking, pressuring, deal-making, bluffing, and outright blackmail that had often accompanied the process over the centuries.
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The world is a force not a presence.
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The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.
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Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.
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I personally feel that there's a lot of music journalism that is dominated by genre, because you need a language in which to write, but actually the things that strike people about music, are very hard to write about, and its sonic connections, it's a sense of harmony that I think we all have even if we don't know how to express it - it's something musical, it's synapse connections in our brain.
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My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.
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Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.
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Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.
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'Hedwig' isn't particularly based on me, but I think that it is autobiographical in terms of emotion.
