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 try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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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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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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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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Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.
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The nice thing about 'Samson & Delilah' is that the team behind it are real hustlers - they really want it to happen.
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If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.
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Your brain is not designed to make you happy. That's your job!
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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.
