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 don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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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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The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.
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I love, love, love, Halloween. I love dressing up - I think it's rad!
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So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
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You learn that different people are made differently, and they have different ways to reach to their goals. Some people reach their limits of what they can produce and create, and that doesn't necessarily make them bad. It is just that they may not be right for that role in that instance.
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I usually take the first batch of some ice cream, eat it, and then about an hour later, at halftime of the Sunday night game, I go after a second serving. So I pretty much get a whole gallon of ice cream Sunday night. It's pretty bad.
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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.
