John Waters Quotes
I think I'm probably the only person that, when the parents lent me money to make the movie, they wished I had not paid them back. They could have said 'No,' and it would have ended, and I would have gotten a real job.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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I don't really yell at people.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
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It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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I'm more of an engineer with a law degree than I am a lawyer with an engineering degree in terms of how I think.
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I think I'm probably the only person that, when the parents lent me money to make the movie, they wished I had not paid them back. They could have said 'No,' and it would have ended, and I would have gotten a real job.
