Camille Paglia Quotes
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The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
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Justice is revenge.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
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The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction.
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For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.
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The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
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One indisputable fact is that whatever has happened to, and with, the Allman Brothers Band, we've persevered.
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The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
