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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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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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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You know, nothing is ever happily-ever-after. Ever.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.
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Sonata form could not be defined until it was dead. Czerny claimed with pride around 1840 that he was the first to describe it, but then it was already part of history.
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Real unity tolerates dissent and rejoices in variety of outlook and tradition, recognizes that it is man's destiny to unite and not divide, and understands that creating proletariats and scapegoats and second-class citizens is a mean and contemptible activity.
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I come from the theater, and there is a real collaborative history there.
