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 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

• I'm very excited to have a girl.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Girl
  • Very
  • Excited

• Even when we were still fighting in the bush against the oppressive dictatorships of Idi Amin and Milton Obote, we introduced elections for the committees of the villages under our control.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Control
  • Fighting

• Starting a successful company is one of the hardest things anyone does.

  

  Andrew Yan

• We'll look after the people who create jobs and business and give them that opportunity to grow in the time ahead.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• I'm sick and tired of only being asked about everything that Donald Trump says or does.

  

  John McCain
  • Trump
  • Tired
  • Sick

• It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry talking, and the statue, the picture, and the musical composition are poetry acting. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at his easel, or deaf Beethoven bending over his piano, inventing and producing strains, which he himself could never hope to hear.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Hope
  • Poetry
  • Picture

• 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
  • Fun
  • Die