John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
I did take comfort in the vespers and compline. I might have become a monk if I hadn't come out.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more.
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.
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As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.
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What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.
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A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.
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I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.
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Any professional athlete will tell you that the mind is everything. For me, there is no shame in saying that I visualize and I meditate, because it really works.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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The concept of evolution postulates that living organisms have common roots, and in turn, the existence of common features is powerful support for the concept of evolution.
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I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.
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I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!
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I signed up for eHarmony once, and it took three hours to fill out that online form - so many personal questions. Then I clicked on submit, and instantaneously they responded and said, 'We are sorry, but there is no one any where in the world that is appropriate for you.' So that was it - I gave up.
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No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.
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Deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.
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We are on a sexual binge in this country. ... One consequence of this binge is that while people now get into bed more readily and a lot more naturally than they once did, what happens there often seems less important.
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I did take comfort in the vespers and compline. I might have become a monk if I hadn't come out.
