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" Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is. "
John Waters
Sex
Funny
Life
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" 'Hairspray' maybe did change people's minds, and that's how you get your political enemies to change their minds - by making them laugh and making them look at something in a way they haven't seen it. Not by preaching and cutting them off and being a separatist. "
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Look
Change
Laugh
" I do take a one-week vacation every year, and I go to London in the fall. "
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Go
Year
Vacation
" People looked at my early pictures and called them the most disgusting things ever, and now 'Hairspray' is being done at every school in Britain and America. "
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" My biggest fear in life is living Nativity scenes. I hide in cars and drive around looking at them. Something about it is really scary to me. What parent would put their child in there with mules and camels and straw? "
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Child
Drive
Looking
" To me, the most important thing is the script. I would never make a movie that I didn't write. I wouldn't know how to. "
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Important
Never
Most
" New York was scarier than Baltimore ever was. It was terrible in the '70s. I'm glad they cleaned it up. I got mugged; I had to go to the hospital. Every time you went out, you got robbed. It was horrible. You can't imagine. "
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" Bergman movies were the most influential. They used to show at Goucher University, which was where my parents used to live. 'Brink of Life' was the first one I ever saw. Three pregnant women in a maternity ward and their misery - I love that. That is what I want to show at my funeral. "
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Parents
Life
Love
" What fashion has started from hackers? They have bad posture, and they don't go out. I wish I had a hacker boyfriend - they stay at home up in the bedroom. "
John Waters
Bad
Wish
Home
" There are schools for weird children now. There wasn't when I was young. "
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Now
Schools
Young
" Science fiction is something I never understood. "
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Science Fiction
Fiction
Never
" If I made a film today, it would certainly be on digital. "
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Today
Would
Made
" Marriage equality is a hustler's feeding frenzy of gold-diggers. I campaigned for marriage equality in Maryland because I believe we should have the right to it, but I personally don't want to get married. I don't want to imitate the traditions of heterosexual people. I hate weddings: they make me uneasy. "
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People
Me
Marriage
" I wanted to own a junk yard as a child, you know. I used to smash cars and think, 'Oh, my God, there's been an accident.' My mother would take me to junk yards, and I look back on that and I think, 'Wow, that was really loving.' "
John Waters
Think
Child
God
" My main residence is Baltimore. I have an apartment in New York, one in San Francisco, and I live in a rental in Provincetown in the summer. "
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New
Summer
New York
" The first record I got, I think I stole. I was with my mother; she turned her back, and I slipped it in my coat. And I think it was 'Cry Baby' by The Bonnie Sisters. That or 'Lucille' by Little Richard. "
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Think
Mother
Cry
" I don't like reality TV. I don't want to look down on people. "
John Waters
Look
People
Reality
" Everybody think they're an outsider - that word's over! When I was young, being an outsider, I thought it was a bad thing you didn't want to be. "
John Waters
Thought
Young
You
" I don't like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves. "
John Waters
Kind
People
Rules
" I went through different looks. At one period, I was preppy because that's how I grew up. But then I had bleached hair in the front. And I used to wear - then I wanted to be a beatnik. It was hard to be a beatnik in suburban Baltimore. But I wanted to be one. "
John Waters
Through
Different
Looks
" I've taught in prison; I've counseled people... I've been arrested; I've been to the psychiatrist. "
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Prison
People
Psychiatrist
" I grew up in Baltimore, which is, you know, a city of extremes certainly, but my parents were very conservative. But they made me feel safe, and even though they were mortified at what I was doing, they encouraged it. I think because they thought, what else could I do? "
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Me
Parents
Think
" Always, European art cinema has been the most threatening and the grimmest and the most transgressive, I think. "
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Always
Think
Most
" My father was horrified by my movies, yet he lent me the money to make the early ones. And I paid him back with interest. "
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Me
Movies
Money
" I don't believe that we should never not talk to people we don't agree with politically. If you can make that person laugh, it's the first step to getting him to listen to change their mind. "
John Waters
You
Laugh
Mind
" I wrote about Herschell in my book 'Shock Value,' for which I interviewed him. We became friends; I had dinner with Herschell the last year before he died. He was elderly, but his mind was perfectly intact. "
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Mind
Year
Book
" I'm sick of '60s nostalgia. I've been to clubs in New York where it's just like the Fillmore East. And I thought I hated that then. "
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Thought
New York
New
" Who have I been starstruck by in real life? One of the weirdest ones was, when we were making 'Cry-Baby,' David Nelson from 'The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet.' I couldn't believe he was sitting in my living room. Certainly Patricia Hearst. Tab Hunter. A lot of the stars I've worked with, when I first got them. "
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Sitting
Believe
Life
" I had a stage when I was 12 years old. I had a puppet show career. I wrote horror stories in camp, and all the parents called and complained. "
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Old
Parents
Stage
" I don't mind snobs, if they have a reason to be a snob. "
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Mind
Reason
Snob
" The good guys in my movies mind their own business, and they don't judge other people. And the bad guys are jealous; they judge other people without knowing the whole story. They want all the attention, and they're mean spirited. "
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Good
Mind
Story