John Waters Quotes

I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time. I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend... I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York, and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.

John Waters

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
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  • Birth: April 22, 1946

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The ugly heart of the South still beats with this idea that one group of people is worth less.

Jesmyn Ward

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My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.

Jeannette Walls

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I was a coat-checker at Orso, and all these wonderful actors were coming in, and it was exciting to me, so I started going to classes, and my excuse was, 'I'll be a better songwriter if I can understand how to play a character.' Well, that couldn't be farther from the truth.

Sophie B. Hawkins

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History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.

Steven Spielberg

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We realized the best way to monetize content was through a subscription model.

Trip Adler

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I can sit down at a piano or with a guitar and just chug away for hours and be perfectly content with whatever comes out. But when it comes to something that somebody else is going to listen to, then I do feel a great deal of pressure to do something that's exceptional, at least in what I consider to be at the limits of what I can do.

Tom Scholz

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Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.

Robert D. Hare

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Vince Gilligan and AMC are really wonderful people to direct and produce for because they don't put the demands of any conventionalism on you.

Michelle MacLaren

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Cleveland was the only visit I made. I had a good feeling they were going to draft me, but I was still shocked when they jumped up to the second round.

Josh Gordon

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Life creates conditions conducive to life.

Janine Benyus

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I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that happen make for good material. It's not a comfortable truth, but it is true.

Antony Sher

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One thing we never did with 'Bad Company' was talk down to our reader. And we certainly don't do that with the new story, 'Bad Company, First Casualties.'

Peter Milligan

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