Camille Paglia Quotes
What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. ... Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
Quotes to Explore
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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I'm a natural blonde!
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Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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You have to learn how to act a pop song. You have to find the balance of the pop from the pop song and the lyrical significance of the scene you are in.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.
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The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and an understanding of the evolution of death offers me helpful ways to think about my own death.
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Children didn't shield families from eviction: They exposed them to it.
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Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.
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I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.
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What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. ... Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
