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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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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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 Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
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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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My greatest inspiration is memory.
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The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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To the credit of the Republican Party and the conservative movement, people have been expelled or marginalized. Pat Buchanan in the '90s. Ron Paul, Rand Paul in the first decade of this century. Bill Buckley famously expelled the Birchers in 1964. It's been a movement that's tried to maintain its boundaries.
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The main thing about doing a comedy is that you spend most of your days really happy and laughing.
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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.
