John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
Drag is a little scary, especially for a gay man who's not comfortable with his feminine side.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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I never left doo wop.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.
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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
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The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.
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I went to Alabama, so I'm still very devoted to Alabama football and the SEC.
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Behind my door at home, that's when I'm relaxed, and that's when I can allow the emotions or whatever - to feel just what I want to feel - so a lot of people don't know me in that respect. I need a bit of space, a bit of a place to come home to and not have to pretend or perform anymore, where I'm just myself.
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Drag is a little scary, especially for a gay man who's not comfortable with his feminine side.
