John Waters Quotes

I went through different looks. At one period, I was preppy because that's how I grew up. But then I had bleached hair in the front. And I used to wear - then I wanted to be a beatnik. It was hard to be a beatnik in suburban Baltimore. But I wanted to be one.

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• I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

  

  Fran Drescher
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• The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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• My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.

  

  Zendaya
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• I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.

  

  Karl Schroeder
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• Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
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• I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.

  

  R. T. Rybak
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• Stand-up, by far, is my favorite.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• I think the toughest part for me was when Herschelle said that he obviously looked up to his Captain, and he felt if his Captain could do it, then so could he, and that to me was when it really struck home.

  

  Hansie Cronje
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• I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.

  

  D'Angelo
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• I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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• There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• I do believe that there are creative chakras or different sorts of energy centers.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
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• We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'

  

  Lana Parrilla
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• I saw the excitement, going to different places, being able to explore emotion in a healthy way.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
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• I don't really have any plans in terms of what I want to do - movies, television, theater - but I'd love to do a play in New York.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard

• He hugged her again, before she could put some distance between them. Then the most sneaky wolf in the den lowered his voice and whispered, “But you’ve got an advantage, sweetheart. You’re already in his head. And you know how to mess with it.

  

  Nalini Singh
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• I'm always scared of trends. The runways are always so trend-oriented, but I always feel for the women. The real women that buy cosmetics want to see the trends, but they don't necessarily go for them. And I always encourage women to find what looks best on them.

  

  Francois Nars
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• I love putting myself in sink-or-swim situations. You realize the human spirit is built to survive.

  

  Annabelle Wallis

• I went through different looks. At one period, I was preppy because that's how I grew up. But then I had bleached hair in the front. And I used to wear - then I wanted to be a beatnik. It was hard to be a beatnik in suburban Baltimore. But I wanted to be one.

  

  John Waters
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