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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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
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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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The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.
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We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.
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Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have the dark without the light.
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I felt that if I shared the lessons that I learned - both the good ones and the bad ones - that I might make the climb a little less painful for other women.
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The joy of accomplishment is the greatest joy there is.
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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.
