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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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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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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My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence.
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假如办十件事，九件是坏的，都登在报上，一定灭亡。那我就走，到农村去，率领农民推翻政府，你解放军不跟我走，我就找红军去。【在庐山会议上的讲话（１９５９年７月２３日）】
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It isn't easy to be frank with yourself. But, if you wish to find your particular success in life, it is the most rewarding reaction of them all.
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I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere
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Debate is the death of conversation.
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Satan well knows that success can only attend order and harmonious action. He well knows that every thing connected with Heaven is in perfect order.
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We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.
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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.
