John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably shouldn't do: drag, punk rock, stand-up comedy... You know, combine them all in a thing that's supremely uncommercial from the objective point of view.

John Cameron Mitchell

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 21, 1963

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I spend a lot of time outlining before I write the first word.

John Grisham

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Andre Maurois

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To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

Jean-Luc Godard

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There are several different ways we can get at unclogging the arteries of lending in America and helping working people achieve financial independence. Part of that is going to be through executive action. Part of that is going to be through reconciliation.

Jeb Hensarling

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Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

John Trudell

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My fifth grade teacher Mr. Straussberger noticed I was having trouble with some of my book reports, but he knew I loved to draw. He gave me extra credit if I did a drawing from the book that I was reading.

Tony DiTerlizzi

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Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.

Mason Cooley

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International regimes, international treaties, international norms are observed not because of the goodness of anybody but because they bring benefits. If they don't, then the longevity of those agreements come into jeopardy.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

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Books, the children of the brain.

Jonathan Swift

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I'm an optimist by nature.

Jon Kyl

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A lot of the city boys in London, a lot of the hedge-fund, young city workers at the height of the financial boom were a lot of working-class, brilliantly minded young fellows and women.

David Thewlis

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Klopp would reproach me for not tracking back properly. I took things on board, and I listened to him. I worked hard in training; I stayed behind after training. That's what helped me to shine in the Bundesliga because I scored quite a lot of goals despite some difficult games in the league.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

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