John Waters Quotes
I've always been close to my family. I've got a lot of nieces and nephews, but I'm a good uncle.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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It is precisely in those moments when I don’t know what to do, boredom drives one to try …a host of possibilities… to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.
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My history has been to grow the roots as deeply as you can before going on to the next thing. That's why it took 10 years to go from Union Square Cafe to Gramercy Tavern, and another 10 years to go from Blue Smoke's first location to its second, and five to go from Shake Shack 1 to Shake Shack 2.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
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Don't ask God to bless junk food and miraculously transform it so that it has nutritional value. That's not how God works.
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I've always been close to my family. I've got a lot of nieces and nephews, but I'm a good uncle.
