Camille Paglia Quotes
The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
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I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.
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It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.
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There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
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Nor is it the irrationality of the form which is taken as characteristic. On the contrary, one overlooks the irrational.
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As a trumpet player, I was playing Xenakis, Lindberg: very challenging, technical, atonal, and I enjoyed it.
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I actually think that self-expression comes, sometimes, from what you wear, and having the freedom to be able to wear whatever you want for whatever mood you want to wear it, but to not feel frivolous that all of those things that help you self-express have to be things that you're committing to forever.
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The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal.
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I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form... But I never want it to take over my acting.
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If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.
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That's what I love about Chicago... It is the staccato aspect of the skyscrapers. But the ground is very loose, very relaxed. It makes Chicago far more pleasant than other cities.
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A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.
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I don't keep secrets because I'm no good at them!
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Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.
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There must be four or five hundred choirs here in London alone. In a way, there's nowhere else on Earth I could go and get this level and passion for singing in the one place.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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When you have a half like that, nine times out of 10, you're going to have a good lead.
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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.
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There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
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It's important to me that talking about my experience not undermine those who choose differently. There can be a stigma for people who don't take the path I did, as though not having surgery means you're not really transitioning. No one should feel as though it's everything or nothing.
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You can't treat an illness with cosmetic surgery, and that's why it would be great if there were qualified therapists in plastic surgeons' offices, and that people would go to a therapeutic meeting before plastic surgery. I think that should be part of the FDA requirement.
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
