John Waters Quotes
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Trump's campaign slogan resonates strongly with a large population of Americans. 'Make America Great Again' portrays a nostalgia for what America once was, and a longing desire to return to that time. Millennials unfortunately don't know first-hand that time which Trump is talking about.
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What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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I'm not a celebrity trainer. I don't have my own line of DVDs, but I'm a fighter and have everything to prove.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
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I often reread books I have written.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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I won't say I didn't like it at the time, the sex, that is, because I wouldn't have let him do it at all if that had been the case.
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I love breaking the fourth wall, and being given permission to play with the audience!
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I see women going anywhere they want to. And I do mean want to. Because a lot of people measure success merely by position, title and salary. I think women feel comfortable enough in their own skin to put that secondary to what they want. They don't have to define success by the measure of society.
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My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.
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If I made a film today, it would certainly be on digital.
