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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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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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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In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.
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I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today.
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Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
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Boone gulped and swallowed. He spoke to The Hat. 'You said the Highway to Eternity?' That is not what I said. I said the Highway of Eternity.'Small difference,' Boone told him. Not so small as you might think.
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I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.
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How can you respect a culture if the woman has to walk several steps behind her man, has to stay in the kitchen and keep her mouth shut?
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As the planet warms, evolution speeds. We've known this for a long time.
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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.
