John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
You're on Facebook, and you're supposed to know your sexual orientation at 13... Nobody really knows what's going on at that time, and people seem to... know stuff, or they have to act like they do, and they make decisions before they really need to.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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Embrace your weirdness!
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So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes has burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.
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It takes 25 minutes to recover from a phone call or an e-mail, researchers have found, and yet the average person receives such an interruption every 11 minutes. Which means that we're never caught up; we're always out of breath, running behind.
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The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.
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My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.
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If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
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You're on Facebook, and you're supposed to know your sexual orientation at 13... Nobody really knows what's going on at that time, and people seem to... know stuff, or they have to act like they do, and they make decisions before they really need to.
