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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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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.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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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.
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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.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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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.
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There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
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That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.
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I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.
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I never hugged him, I bombed him.
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Hair color is the easiest way to change your appearance, but a bad dye job might draw more attention to you.
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Not just me but every professional footballer will tell you they miss playing the game, I miss the game especially as I retired early, not because I was a bad player but I retired solely for health reasons.
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Some people should die that's just unconscious knowledge.
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I think it would be fun to die onstage! Just drop dead in the middle of my show? That wouldn't be so bad.
