#don

I'm sure there are a lot of things I should have done differently. But I don't think I've stepped on anyone along the way. If I have, I didn't mean to. ↗

— Patti Page

#anyone #differently #done #i #lot

Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#audience #catchy #concerts #depth #effects

The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#damage #done #feckless #george #george w

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#contemporary #dictate #ear #eye #madonna

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#dissolved #divine #genius #her #hollywood

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#anyone #art #artistic #busy #fashion

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior? ↗

— Camille Paglia

#compete #dies #does #her #junior

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#commandment #done #every #express #god

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#being done #connection #done #every #explained

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#carry #character #comedy #done #earlier