Camille Paglia Quotes
Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.
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Love is the one wild card.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Alliances are crucial to success in the political sphere. However, if we are to approach other organizations to propose alliances for the public good, we must be prepared to assert a far more important role for the library. We must clearly define what we do and establish and assert the relationship of libraries to basic democratic freedoms, to the fundamental humanistic principles that are central to our very way of life. . . .
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I've often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death. Sometimes one hardly even notices it's happened, that moment, until some careless remark arouses one's suspicions.
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Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved.
