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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Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
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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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I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either.
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This sense in which so much of who we are doesn't break the surface - our knowability to one another is always something I like to explore.
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I think we were naive during the first two years of the [Barack] Obama Administration because the Republicans didn't fight us on this point during the 2008 Presidential Election. Obama and McCain both ran on a clean energy platform. But now, uncontested lies have eroded hard-won public understanding. So, we have to go back and make the case again.
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I am proud to be an Ethiopian. I am proud to be a part of that history.
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I'm the most mellow person offstage. I think it's just, going onstage lets me get out some frustration that I'm too shy to do in real life. Instead of doing it in private, I'd rather do it in front of 1,000 people who've paid $25 to see me lose my mind.
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I come from the theater, and there is a real collaborative history there.
