John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

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John Cameron Mitchell

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• To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Want
  • Negative
  • Recognition

• I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.

  

  Halsey
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• Time has changed and now is the age of spending.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Time
  • Age
  • Now

• Although I now spend most of my time writing novels for teenagers and adults, 'readaloudability' is still a criterion I try to adhere to.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Try

• I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Life
  • Time
  • Job

• I grew up as a fan of comic books, and I've been reading them for so long that I've never felt an affinity toward just one.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • Long
  • Reading

• We thought about it, what we want to tell, and I didn't want to move it directly into the Nazi times. I thought it's much more interesting to see how BloodRayne became BloodRayne.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Thought

• I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Want
  • Someone
  • Group

• I really enjoy my philanthropic work, traveling around the world and helping people in need. That's a lot of fun for me. It's really rewarding. You're helping people, but it's helping you, too. It puts life in perspective when you come back and you say, 'Man, it's raining again in Minnesota.'

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • People
  • See
  • Scary

• I like how the other guys are stepping up. If we keep this up, then Bell does not have to score 25 points a game for us to win.

  

  Pat Williams
  • Up
  • Game
  • Win

• I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Hope

• Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Man
  • Words
  • Universe

• My dream tour would be like, me, Cole, Drake, Sean, Meek. I think that would be dope, something like that; big venues.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Dope

• It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • May

• I’ve been in the entertainment industry ever since, in one capacity or another. It’s better than the Inquisition. Usually.

  

  Kage Baker

• Men’s pay paid women to love and nurture, to connect and feel. To be nurturer-connectors. In contrast, men received their pay by being some form of killer-protector. By becoming a human doing (a captain or a coal miner), not a human being (a person who feels happy or sad).

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Happy

• I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Important

• My motivation at the moment is around knowing how it feels to turn a business around, and I can't wait to have that feeling again.

  

  Steve Easterbrook
  • Business
  • motivation
  • Turn

• Today,’ said Lymond, ‘if you must know, I don’t like living at all. But that’s just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I’ll be bright as a bedbug again.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Today
  • Failure
  • Sad

• I think that women no longer have to set up a boundary between work life and home life. One of the hallmarks of my thinking is that I bring a lot of my personal life into my work. That's a huge advantage I have over men, who may feel they have to separate the two.

  

  Charlene Li

• I like all kinds of input.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell