John Waters Quotes
To me, the most important thing is the script. I would never make a movie that I didn't write. I wouldn't know how to.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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We show our faces to support the billions of young people who suffer a lack of education. We show our faces to honour the potential of every young individual on this planet.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
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Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.
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I gave a LOT of unnecessary head. And I know that guys are going to argue with me about this. 'Oh, Margaret, there's no such thing as unnecessary head! All head is necessary! All head is wanted and needed in the world. I run a home for unnecessary head.'
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A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.
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It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that couldn't even get a husband can always tell you how to raise a family.
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I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important. There's something a little freeing about it.
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To me, the most important thing is the script. I would never make a movie that I didn't write. I wouldn't know how to.
