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.

Camille Paglia

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• I breathe martial arts every day of my life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Acting
  • Role
  • Performances

• They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Thought
  • Office
  • Box

• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Good
  • Education
  • Theatre

• The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Bad
  • Government
  • Effective

• The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Important
  • Mirror
  • Tool

• I don't seek out love or relationships, just because my schedule is crazy.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Love
  • Crazy
  • Relationships

• There was a time in my life when one aspect of my lifestyle called for watching a lot of television.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Life
  • Long
  • School

• 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.'

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Actors
  • Stars
  • Show

• The only way you're going to have a good relationship with anyone is to have a good relationship with yourself.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Good
  • Relationship

• I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Why

• A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May
  • Humanity

• 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.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life

• Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

  

  Logic
  • Logic

• I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.

  

  Clarice Lispector
  • Freedom

• Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

  

  Jason Sudeikis
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Learning

• 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.

  

  Colin Egglesfield
  • Work
  • Family
  • Team

• I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Game

• In the U.K., we have always been an open, trading nation, enriched by our global links. Contemporary patterns of migration extend this tradition.

  

  David Blunkett

• I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents.

  

  Louise Bourgeois
  • Life
  • Business
  • Parents

• Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.

  

  Jessica Lange
  • Time
  • Perfect

• It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And even more difficult for a woman if she's lesbian. It`s very distressing to me that that should be the case. The film industry is very old fashioned in California.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • She
  • American
  • Career

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Lesbian
  • Sisterhood