John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
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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.
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I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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Although I now spend most of my time writing novels for teenagers and adults, 'readaloudability' is still a criterion I try to adhere to.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Looking back at my career, I wish I knew then what I know now... that gender bias is built into the system, and it's unconscious in many ways. I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more. I was always trying to be a 'good girl' and play by the rules.
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As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.
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I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My dream tour would be like, me, Cole, Drake, Sean, Meek. I think that would be dope, something like that; big venues.
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Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
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To speak only of food inspections: the United States currently imports 80% of its seafood, 32% of its fruits and nuts, 13% of its vegetables, and 10% of its meats. In 2007, these foods arrived in 25,000 shipments a day from about 100 countries. The FDA was able to inspect about 1% of these shipments, down from 8% in 1992. In contrast, the USDA is able to inspect 16% of the foods under its purview. By one assessment, the FDA has become so short-staffed that it would take the agency 1,900 years to inspect every foreign plant that exports food to the United States.
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I like all kinds of input.
