John Waters Quotes
My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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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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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
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I was very rebellious.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
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Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be.
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My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.
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My father would sit and design furniture and cabinets - he was a carpenter and cabinet maker - and I would ask for my own piece of paper and pencil. And when I would say, 'What should I draw?' he would push a cartoon under my nose and say, 'Here, draw this.' So the cartoon became a kind of focus of attention.
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People are always saying it's the end of the Gutenberg era. More to the point, it's a return to an oral era. The Gutenberg galaxy was about the written word. At its best, the digital era is part of the rediscovery of the oral. At its worst, it's a Kafkaesque victory of the bureaucratic over the imagination.
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It will always take a certain audacity to write or to make art of any kind.
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My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble.
