John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'
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I do not like violence.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
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I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.
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When I was young, I had an 'aha' moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything - Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince - in there.
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Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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I cannot live anywhere else except India.
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A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
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I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he's a precursor.
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I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.
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Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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I've been doing comedy since I was two. You know, kids who make other kids laugh. The sickness had set in! I could make my friends' parents laugh; I had a sense of what was silly and funny.
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I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.
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A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.
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There are a lot of silly projects out there.
