I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film … - Camille Paglia

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When you're an artist you're speaking about life, you're talking about your experience here on the planet. So essentially, that's what I do when I'm writing songs.

Camille Paglia

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

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