Camille Paglia Quotes
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.
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We only see things coming and going, we need food, we need water.
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Directing is a tremendous art.
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Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time
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I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
