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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What I've been doing with my misfit, so-called acting career in film from day one on my first film, 'Spanking The Monkey', is, I've kind of made a concerted effort to hijack my acting career to turn it into film school, because I've always had the blasphemous idea of becoming a reasonably competent filmmaker in my own right some day.
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When people come up to me and ask for a photo, ask for an autograph, I'm like 'Me? Are you sure?' I don't consider myself to be a public figure. I just happen to be.
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Well, 45-odd years of doing it, so we all pile up the things we like about directors and the things we don't like about directors. And sometimes they're very similar.
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I love it if comedy reflects real life because to me it's more reassuring that we'll get through.
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In software and many other online markets, even dominant firms face potential threats because of the low costs for competitors to enter those markets. Threats more easily emerge because of better or newer technologies leapfrogging older ones.
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To me, camp is two older queens talking about Rita Hayworth under a Tiffany's lampshade.
