Camille Paglia Quotes
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
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I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.
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It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
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It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we celebrate the sacraments like this and that.
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I connect much more with theatre actors than with cinema actors - insofar as you can speak of 'cinema actors' in Mexico, because there isn't a big film industry.
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What do we mean by soft matter? Americans prefer to call it 'complex fluids.' This is a rather ugly name, which tends to discourage the young students.
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And after every audition I booked, my parents would buy me a Barbie, so that was it for me: You got a Barbie, and you got to hang out with friends. And I thought it was just the best thing ever.
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To cherish the life of the world.
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With musical theatre, although there are rules, they're so different to the ones I feel like I have accidentally been ingrained with writing pop music. The main point is to tell the story. You just have to make sure the character's voice is strong and the storytelling is strong.
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When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.
