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.

John Cameron Mitchell

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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.

  

  Parker Posey
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• What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.

  

  Pat Metheny
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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.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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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.

  

  Magnus Scheving
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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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• My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence.

  

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• The Pop art I wound up doing came to me purely from 'Mad' comics. I loved the idea of doing fun stuff. I met an art dealer who wanted to show the work - that was in January 1962 - and that was the beginning for me.

  

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• The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.

  

  James Dyson
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• Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

  

  Martin Heidegger
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• Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle with me. Away, you bottle-ale rascal! you basket-hilt stale juggler, you!

  

  William Shakespeare
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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.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell