John Waters Quotes
To me, camp is two older queens talking about Rita Hayworth under a Tiffany's lampshade.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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Raising the minimum wage represents a substantial financial burden for employers, particularly start-ups, early stage companies, and family-owned businesses. In response, business owners would be forced to either lay off workers or raise prices to offset the rise in labor costs.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
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I don't believe in changing the unchangeable.
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If I've been an architect of my own career in any fashion, one thing that I've attempted to do is not get typecast, in order to be able to play all different kind of characters. I think I've done a pretty good job of that over the years.
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Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
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GRUBSTREET - The name of a street near Moorsfield, London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems.
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Assume the worst about people and you get the worst.
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It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.
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If there's any secret to my success, it's that I just hire people who are smarter and more talented than I am.
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I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.
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When I meet somebody in the street who knows about 'Humans of New York,' a lot of times they might have a scripted answer, and that scripted answer is the first thing to come out of their mouth.
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No, but Liza took went and took away from me, possibly my livelihood.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.
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One of the shows I would very much love to be a part of is 'Mad Men' - walking around that office.
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I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.
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Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others.
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When I left Yahoo, I was really looking for an early stage company that had some complexities and things that needed to be figured out.
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The Koch brothers are spending more money against me than I've been able to raise.
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To me, camp is two older queens talking about Rita Hayworth under a Tiffany's lampshade.
