John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
I remember seeing a stage version of Plato's 'Symposium' and being really moved because it was written by a man rather than a culture.
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.
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Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.
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Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
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My family was quite poor, and the NHS was recruiting people from abroad to do psychiatric nursing. It was the only hope I had to leave Hong Kong.
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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I remember seeing a stage version of Plato's 'Symposium' and being really moved because it was written by a man rather than a culture.
