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I have to talk about my movies. I have to give interviews to promote what I'm doing. But no one really knows my personal life. And if you don't have a personal life I feel bad for you.
John Waters
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John Waters
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: April 22
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I make a great part of my living by traveling and speaking. To me, it's like being a politician, you meet your audience, you constantly see the people and they're getting younger for me which is really, really encouraging. I get older and my audience gets younger. It couldn't be better.
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I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.
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You see a kid making a film on a cell phone. He doesn't know what he's doing either. But it comes out kind of good.
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I'm an old person because I still buy DVDs. I have every one of my albums and 45s - I even have a couple of 33s and I do have a turntable. But I must admit, I don't listen to vinyl today. But I listen to all types of music.
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I never thought I'd be 52 years old. I don't think that anybody at 16 thinks like that.
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Everything makes you who you are, so I was lucky that I had a good family that was horrified by what I wanted to do but was also supportive of it, right to the very end.
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You go to school to figure out who you want to be and how you can do it, and [maybe] I should have, because the films would probably be technically better.
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So many great people are dead, and so many assholes I know are still alive. Karma's bullshit. I wish it was true, but it ain't.
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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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Shutting down governments on your computer is just as much as fun as going to a riot at Yale.
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Ever feel like killing somebody just to see if you could get away with it? Sure, you have. Everybody has little things that get on their nerves.
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I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don't like.
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My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you're never around assholes. That's the two things to really fight for in life.
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I love radical theorists. But at the same time, I don't agree with them a lot, but I love their theories. I love how they intellectualize rage, and this inner battle that such a tiny percent of people really care about. I find that the most interesting.
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