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.
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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'm very excited to have a girl.
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My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past, and worked out a fairly solid middle ground. I wouldn't say my relationship with either of them - they're no longer together - is exactly typical, but that would be difficult after all we went through.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.
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Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
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Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them.
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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.
