John Waters
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A wonderful, terribly exciting disease.
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Being accepted for who you are but also being encouraged to continue to grow.
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There are types: there is the world-being-comfortable type of love and there’s the lust-and-passion type of love – I think I like that one better.
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To keep trying to listen to yourself.
Not playing Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. I am a huge Brando fan and a big Tennessee Williams fan and it’s a part I would love to have a go at. It’s possible I still could but I’m too old, really.
Driven, sensitive and playful.
On Monday in therapy.
Obsequiousness.
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