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As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any.
John Waters
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John Waters
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: April 22
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Baltimore
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John Samuel Waters
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the Pope of Trash
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I loved Cookie [Mueller]. She was a much better writer than actress. She shouldn't have stuck with me in the beginning she should have immediately become a writer. She would have had more of a chance.
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I've signed peoples' parole cards at book signings and it's very touching.
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Fifty years seems like a good anniversary. Even after I'm dead, how much better could I get than this? I mean, it's great, I'm not dead, so I get to see it.
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Valentine's Day is my mother's birthday. If I'm wildly in love, I've sent people chicken hearts, which seems to appeal to the kind of person that I've been in love with.
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Humor is how you change people's opinions, and if you can make someone laugh, they'll listen, even if they hate you.
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I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. They hated my movies. You could never have that happen today. Critics are way too hip.
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Without obsession, life is nothing.
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The way I photograph... in many ways it's directed by chance and all my mistakes, which are often the best stuff. I found that no matter if it's the same tape, the same TV, and the same camera, I can never duplicate an image... your arm jiggles, there's just too much chance. And I never put it on pause, or use any of that fancy equipment.
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People still come to Baltimore and say, I didn't realize you made documentaries.
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Baltimore never changes much. People aren't impressed by anything. It's great it's not a trendy town.
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The only way I've learned to change anyone's mind politically is to make them laugh. My whole career has been about that.
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I never had any desire to get a tattoo. If I was ever going to get one, I would get a plain anchor with a rope around it, the most unimaginative possible tattoo, like Popeye had.
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You have to remember the police used to raid and arrest the audience for seeing Scorpio Rising (1964), or Jack Smith movies. Wouldn't that be exciting today, if you see went to the movie and everyone at the IFC was arrested in a paddy wagon and taken away?
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If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.
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