Camille Paglia Quotes
Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
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I don't seek out love or relationships, just because my schedule is crazy.
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There was a time in my life when one aspect of my lifestyle called for watching a lot of television.
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I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.
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There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set - and it happens a lot with big stars - and they are too aware of where the camera is. They are the show. And that becomes apparent and it affects the production. I am like 'You should not know where the camera is - you should act, and I will do the rest.'
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The only way you're going to have a good relationship with anyone is to have a good relationship with yourself.
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I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.
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A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
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Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.
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Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
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I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.
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Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.
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A family member of mine was diagnosed with lymphoma, and the treatment they're getting wouldn't exist if it weren't for the work that Team in Training does. I want to support them.
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I think what's at risk is kids losing touch with being a kid. Being a kid is being defined differently than it was when you didn't have all this stuff you could put in front of your face.
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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
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Being a black lesbian myself, I roll my eyes a little bit when I see black lesbian characters on shows where it's purely there for decoration. You can just hear it in the writers room... 'What if we make her a lesbian?'
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I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah.
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You would never argue about a straight girl playing a lesbian. Everybody still watched 'The L Word.' I feel like we have such great role models, like Jane Lynch and Jodie Foster and all these people that you don't even think about.
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Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.
