John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
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Working with special needs children is hard.
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Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
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Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
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We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
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I am a fiscal conservative.
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My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.
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Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.
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Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.
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People with a mission to save the earth want the earth to seem worse than it is so their mission will look more important.
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Why do men like intelligent women? Because opposites attract.
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In these circumstances, the FOMC judged that some further firming of monetary policy may be necessary, an assessment with which I concur.
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For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.
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To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered in Palestine, the pope should get himself down to the dole queue as fast as possible. It is rather to claim that while faith, rather like love, must involve factual knowledge, it is not reducible to it.
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We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.
