John Waters Quotes
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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain, particularly my time in South Ruislip. I had a ball.
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
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When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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I think every credit you get and every film you have your name attached to makes things a little bit easier. It definitely opens doors up, but it's still a grind.
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When I was a kid, I just figured we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000.
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I'm insecure about things. I'm not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, 'Go on the red carpet,' I don't wanna go.
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In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.
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The neurotic ... is not the voluntary happy seeker of truth, but the forced, unhappy finder of it.
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'It always seemed to me they’re sort of alike,' he said, 'magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.'
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He isn't insane, he's simply as trapped in his life as I am in mine. That makes us friends.
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Magically turning people's old scalar contexts into list contexts is a recipe for several kinds of disaster.
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We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.
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How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.
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I will say in a few words why the anarchist doctrine is wrong. The anarchists say that the working class does not need a government: what is needs is to organize production. Government, they say, is a bourgeois invention, a bourgeois machine of compulsion, and the working class does not need to take governmental power. This is wrong from beginning to end.
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I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.
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In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.
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Most of my friends are non-cyclists. They are interested and proud of my achievements, but, equally, if I stopped tomorrow, they wouldn't say much about it!
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard?
