John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
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I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.
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I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
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Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.
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I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.
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I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
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I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don't think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession.
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Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
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MAC Cosmetics is incredible for lips; I always wear it.
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A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
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Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.
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I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.
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Who needs an umbrella in the rain?" she said, and stepped into the car.
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The human condition is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.
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Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer.
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I think things are dishonest if they're not aware of sadness.
