John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.
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I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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I'm a strong fighter, I'm a fighter who can adapt to my surroundings.
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My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.
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My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
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People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.
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There comes a real loneliness in celebrity where you're constantly told you're part of an out group in your own society.
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I come from the theater, and there is a real collaborative history there.
