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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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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Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.
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If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.
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More than half of the world’s population, struggle for food – but we expect privilege.
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She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.
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A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.
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It is an oftentimes dangerous world and not all of the people in it are nice, sweet and benevolent. It is the nature of man to behave otherwise and we must find leaders who can show us a better way and still maintains a balanced view.
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To me, camp is two older queens talking about Rita Hayworth under a Tiffany's lampshade.
