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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It's a heavy feeling being in Washington. There are so many important issues at risk. You're in a fighting stance every day.
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My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simply but let the story do its own work, or be an invite to the audience's imagination.
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You don't need to watch everyone if everyone believes they're being watched.
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Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermes factory. Sh*t is real. You're not going to find a chink. It's 100,000 per cent Jimi Hendrix.
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We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.
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I come from the theater, and there is a real collaborative history there.
