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Camille Paglia Quotes

I am a very reclusive, private person.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: April 2, 1947

Topics

I Am Person Private Person Very Am

I think that the first book that made me think that I could try to be a writer - or that made me aware that a young black woman from the South could write about the South - was Alice Walker's 'The Color Purple,' which I read for the first time when I was in junior high.

Time Woman Me Book Color Think

People would be surprised by me if they knew I was humble.

Humble People Me Would Knew

In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.

Relationship People Listening Saying

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

Jean-Luc Godard

Girl Gun You Need Movie

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

Man Speak You Find Him He

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

Music Speak I Can Dare Say Started

You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking.

Rosie O'Donnell

Life Walk World Thinking Trying You

Each day of the Obama presidency seems to bring a new, perversely delicious irony.

Day New Irony Bring Presidency Each

I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. They've taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them.

Work Hard Work Goals Father Mother

I would love to start a cancer organization.

Love Organization Start Cancer Would

Being a soldier's daughter, I understand that what they are doing is the real deal. But me giving statement on the issue is of no significance.

Daughter Me Giving Doing Understand

To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.

Painting Picture Surroundings Real

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