John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

If you go for the money first and try to think of what other people want to see, you change your original inspiration and perhaps put out something that's less original and less personal and maybe less satisfying.

John Cameron Mitchell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChangeMoneyPeopleThinkYouWant

So much of my writing derives from these questions that I ask myself - things that are utterly beyond my personal set of experiences - and it's my attempt to try to... understand, to sort of break out of my own consciousness, you know, the limitations of my own life.

Jhumpa Lahiri

LifeMyselfWritingQuestionsYou

There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.

John Maeda

DoingWrongKnowInfiniteWayOver

In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester.

Robert Robinson

TeacherPlaceUniversityLaboratory

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Andy Rooney

SmileYouMeanAroundElseReally

Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.

Sol LeWitt

RealStartedIdeaBeforeMinimalism

I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.

Topher Grace

LifeFunnyDayComedyYouDrama

If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime.

Mike Love

MusicHistoryThinkChurchYouLook

Though President Obama promised during the 2008 campaign to pass the DREAM Act, he never made it a priority and failed to bring Republicans and Democrats together to do it in his first term.

Juan Williams

TogetherDreamPresidentNeverFirst

Of course there are always exceptions, but opinions are not to be feared.

Joseph Kosinski

OpinionsAlwaysCourseExceptions

Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems.

Dean Kamen

PeopleProblemsBetterDrivingGoing

'Boy' is one of my top-five favorite movies of all time.

Wyatt Russell

TimeMoviesBoyFavorite

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.

Paul Thomas Anderson

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