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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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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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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Stop threatening me... I've lived in terror and I've come out of it. Kill me or not, torture me or not, it doesn't matter to me. Just decide what to do.
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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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Responsibility is something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where, and only where, they will be properly judged.
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Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.
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Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.
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Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone.
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To me, camp is two older queens talking about Rita Hayworth under a Tiffany's lampshade.
