Camille Paglia Quotes
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.
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I love simplicity.
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'Love Aaj Kal' is not really a road movie, but it does involve some travel.
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The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.
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I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.
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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
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If we do our job right, then we have everything to stand on. If we don't do our job, we have everything to lose on.
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If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
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If you don't know Tom Lehrer, you should - in addition to being a classical pianist, mathematician, songwriter, satirist, researcher at Los Alamos and, he claims, inventor of the Jell-O shot, he is just delightfully funny and graceful.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
