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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Trends don't interest 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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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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That woman I once was, in a black agate necklace, I do not wish to meet again till the Day of Judgement.
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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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It's been an absolute rollercoaster. The things I've done, I didn't even dream of doing or achieving.
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You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit more of a blank slate.
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But I also enjoy music outside the band. I've been doing production for other people, including Robert Wyatt. Check him out. The album we did together, 'Rock Bottom,' I think it's really lasted well. It's a 35-year-old album, but it worked.
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Life does not hurt nearly as much if we have learned to listen to ourselves and to recognize how fully and richly we are trying to tell ourselves the truth.
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Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
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To me, camp is two older queens talking about Rita Hayworth under a Tiffany's lampshade.
