Camille Paglia Quotes
Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
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But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
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To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
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Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.
Garry Kasparov -
I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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The rest-the vast majority, tens of thousands of days-are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous. We glide through them then instantly forget them. We tend not to think about this arithmetic when we look back on our lives. We remember the handful of Big Days and throw away the rest. We organize our long, shapeless lives into tidy little stories...But our lives are mostly made up of junk, of ordinary, forgettable days, and 'The End' is never the end.
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A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.
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I don't remember feeling love.
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Acting is so exciting to me. It's a thrill; otherwise I wouldn't do it. Not to be hokey, but I think life is definitely worth living, whether you're working or not. For an actor, the character is the thing... it doesn't matter what medium you're in. as long as you have something to do.
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Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
