John Waters Quotes
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.
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I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable. I've also sailed around the Turkish islands, the Greek islands and Sicily.
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I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air. And we'd vacation on an island in Michigan, where I hunted a deer that we ate.
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The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
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The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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I have been lucky in my life to have met people that are special, so extraordinary talented that they somehow are on a different plane. Sometimes these amazingly talented people find a way to keep reinventing themselves to stay relevant and alive. Some fall under the crushing vibrancy of their own intensity.
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A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
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If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.
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From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'
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I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
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We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem
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I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
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Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.
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I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.
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I do take a one-week vacation every year, and I go to London in the fall.
