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Terrible things always seemed to happen to hitchhikers in movies - including my own. It has always been glamorous and dangerous and scary and sexy.
John Waters
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John Waters
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: April 22
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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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Maybe I'll just write books. I'd like to make another movie, but I don't want to go back and [do] what they want you to do, to make it for a million dollars. I did that. I don't need a lot, but I need what I used to get, and they don't give you that anymore.
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Everyone wants to be called an outsider so I'm a proud insider. If I was young I'd be in my parents' house shutting down the government on my computer. The new delinquent is the hacker.
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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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Technique is nothing more than failed style.
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Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse social crime than hunger.
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The only time I had a normal boyfriend was during the time of AIDS, so maybe that saved me. It's certainly not karma.
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People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.
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I liked speed. I was on black beauties all the time. Nothing bad happened to me. I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie. We weren't stoned when we made them I was stoned when I made movies up. I did them all.
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To me, racist jokes are not funny. I am politically correct, in a weird way. I like to push the boundaries that are politically correct.
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I hitchhiked at high school. My parents thought was a perfectly normal thing to do even though God knows I got blown a lot of times riding home from school.
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You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.
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Anytime you make someone laugh or satirize something, it's the best way to change someone's opinion because they're defenseless - they laugh, they listen.
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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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It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.
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Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down to a naked man who's nailed to a cross? It's like a bad leather bar.
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I tried heroin. I shot up in high school, but I just thought it was so dreary: puking and nodding.
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I would describe myself as a writer that hopes to take you into my world and help you feel a little safer.
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I always say you need something weird on your face and some good shoes and nobody looks in the middle.
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