John Waters Quotes
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.
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I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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The typical workday, particularly in startup mode, is from nine to six or nine to seven, then you take a two-hour break to work out and eat dinner. By that time, you're relaxed, and then you work until midnight or one A.M. If there was no break with physical activity, you'd be more tired and less alert.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.
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The biggest difference for me was that I operated almost every frame on 'Mudbound,' and I didn't operate on 'Black Panther.'
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I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.
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Good actors, actually, in real life, are shy and very quiet people a lot of the time.
