John Waters Quotes
Always, European art cinema has been the most threatening and the grimmest and the most transgressive, I think.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
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My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.
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A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.
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Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.
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It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.
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I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.
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Always, European art cinema has been the most threatening and the grimmest and the most transgressive, I think.
