John Waters Quotes

I think it would be fun to die onstage! Just drop dead in the middle of my show? That wouldn't be so bad.

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• My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • She
  • Mother

• My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Great
  • Trying

• I was not getting work, even after auditioning for films. So I started working in a studio as a photographer; I assisted a cinematographer for two ads. I was thinking that I will get into photography or cinematography or assist someone. But then the 'Dangal' offer came, and I was busy with the auditions.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Photography

• My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • School
  • Library
  • Grandmother

• I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Country

• Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Film
  • More
  • Often

• This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Environmental

• As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Art
  • Imitation

• I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Music
  • Always
  • Try

• Money is a kind of poetry.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Money
  • Kind
  • Poetry

• I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Today

• I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Night
  • Sound
  • Record

• If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Challenge

• In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Black
  • Culture
  • Dark

• There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Love
  • Religious

• I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Lies
  • Danger

• If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Times
  • Fail
  • Himself

• That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.

  

  Halsey
  • Remember
  • Choose
  • Musicians

• My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Up
  • View
  • Personal

• Growing up, I used to watch 'Happy Days,' 'Laverne & Shirley,' 'All in the Family.' Those were the shows I watched growing up with my family. And, believe it or not, 'McMillan and Wife' and 'Columbo.'

  

  Mark Pellegrino
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Family

• I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Me
  • Blood
  • Pressure

• A winner-takes-all economy that offers only limited access to the middle class is a recipe for democratic malaise and dereliction.

  

  Klaus Schwab

• From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • May
  • Assumption

• I think it would be fun to die onstage! Just drop dead in the middle of my show? That wouldn't be so bad.

  

  John Waters
  • Bad
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