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The further away I am from water, the less well I do!
John Waters
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John Waters
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: April 22
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I've bought the same used car from the same man since I was 16 - a Buick every time. They always work, I don't care what color it is. I don't want people to recognize my car in case I want to commit a crime.
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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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I never got along in school really - I already knew what I wanted to do. I have never in my life got a paycheck from anywhere in the world that asked if I went to school.
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I care about the presidential elections. I always vote. Sometimes I've voted more than once, illegally. But you can't anymore. The picture ID has ruined everything.
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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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It isn't enough to shock. It's easy to shock. Real surprise is what I'm after.
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My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior - before the Reformation.
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I actually think that my films are intellectual. I think almost everything I do is intellectual, but I would never say that, because that's a compliment. That's up to others to say about me. The same way, I would never say I do art. I think art is up to history. It's up to other people to utter that word. So I try to be humble.
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Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?
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I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get.
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People still come to Baltimore and say, I didn't realize you made documentaries.
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I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out.
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I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? Axis of Evil? Come on. A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even.
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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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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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I have no interest in cars. I have a plain, used Buick. I could run over 10 people, and you wouldn't be able to describe my car.
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The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.
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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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Well cult is a word you would never say in Hollywood. In any film business, if you're trying to get your next film made, you would never say, Oh, my last film was a cult film. I'd say, Oh great, well I hope this one isn't!
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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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