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John Samuel Waters, Jr. es un director de cine, actor, escritor y fotógrafo estadounidense. También es profesor de Cine y subcultura en la European Graduate School. Se hizo conocido a principio de los 70 por sus transgresoras películas de culto. Es reconocible por el característico y finísimo bigote que luce en homenaje a Little Richard.

Aunque posee apartamentos en Nueva York, San Francisco y una casa de veraneo en Provincetown, Waters todavía mantiene su residencia en su ciudad natal, Baltimore, Maryland, donde rueda sus películas. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. abril 1946
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John Waters: Frases en inglés

“Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.”

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Variante: [W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It’s the freedom to pick up any book you want without looking at the price and wondering whether you can afford it.
Fuente: Role Models

“My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.”

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Fuente: Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste

“It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”

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“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”

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“True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.”

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Fuente: Role Models

“I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit.”

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“To me, beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe.”

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Fuente: Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste

“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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“Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.”

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Fuente: Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters

“There is right and there is wrong, I have NEVER been wrong.”

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Fuente: Pink Flamingos and Other Filth: Three Screenplays

“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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Fuente: Role Models

“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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Fuente: Role Models

“Cheer up. You never know — maybe something awful will happen tomorrow.”

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Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)

“Parents should worry if their children haven't been arrested by the time they turn sixteen. Being a juvenile delinquent is a birthright and as much a part of healthy adolescence as smoking cigarettes or getting pimples.”

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Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)

“Life is nothing without a good sense of humor.”

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Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)

“Going to a sensational murder trial is the only way I can relax.”

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Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)

“I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore… It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. No one moves here.”

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Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)

“To me, camp is two older queens talking about Rita Hayworth under a Tiffany's lampshade.”

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From Vice interview

“Waters might, once upon a time, have been a candidate to be the American Buñuel, especially when he had the raw hatred of Divine under his command…”

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David Thomson, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002, ISBN 0-375-41128-3.
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“I'd never trust anyone who hadn't spent at least one night of his youth in the local jail. The more hell you raise as a teen-ager, the sweeter your memories will be.”

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Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)