Camille Paglia Quotes

It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

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I want to resume the life of a shy person.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.
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I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. That would be more to dance to. I think dancers like different genres of music, compared to just a regular person.
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Become your dream, and not be told what you are supposed to do.
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In flush times, a rising tide of consumption can compensate for less than optimal branding, positioning, pricing or segmentation.
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Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.
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I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.
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People feel that in this industry friendships are not for real, but that's not true. Otherwise, what is the point of being friends?
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.