I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.
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Related Every two months, I'll get a trim, and every two years, I'll get a cut. And my night ritual ... TRACEE ELLIS ROSS I don't shoot guns. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with m... JIMMY FALLON I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get a... MAUREEN FORRESTER I can't work all day and then go home and hang out with the same people. I don't want everyt... KEKE PALMER I didn't go to a business school. I didn't really study it. DANIEL S. LOEB I don't like to go out to parties or clubbing, and I kind of like my anonymity. MATTHEW MORRISON I still do all my developing and printing in my darkroom. Being in New York, you get tremendous expo... SUNG JIN PARK I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and ... ABY ROSEN I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't... TONY STEWART I don't think I could ever go skinny. I just don't think, physiologically, that is going to ... REBEL WILSON I am in the fighting game. I don't care about anything else. I don't watch the news, I don... CONOR MCGREGOR I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my s... HARLAND WILLIAMS Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that ... BEN VEREEN I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful. MADONNA CICCONE I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing... DAVID GALLAGHER I don't know if I do anything to get into character: I just go with my gut. JAMIE BLACKLEY People that want to be in the tabloids will get into the tabloids. I just stay home and don't go... KEKE PALMER I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh cr... SAM CLAFLIN Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my bu... ERYKAH BADU I don't think I would go back and change anything that's happened in my career, because mayb... DR. DRE My father is a teacher; my mother was a telecom employee. I come from Palermo; I was raised in Ethio... LUCA GUADAGNINO I don't do too much outside of football during football season, because this is my job and I tak... ROBERT GRIFFIN III Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to r... CAROLL SPINNEY Don't get me wrong: school is good and all, but school is way too slow for me. Like, super slow.... LIL UZI VERT My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to g... JOE BIDEN I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear. TAMMY FAYE BAKKER I don't just study my opponent; I study myself. It's something you have to do to get better. STEFON DIGGS It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Ca... ADELE I do not go out to dinner or to the movies with the neighbors, as I do with my friends. I don't ... CATHLEEN SCHINE I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a ... SIGOURNEY WEAVER When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that. KERRY KING I don't actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am... LINUS TORVALDS I don't feel typecast almost at all, and it could just be because I'm insensitive, but I dou... GRACE PARK I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with yo... GABRIEL IGLESIAS I am good in bed - I don't snore. I don't take the duvet. I just lay there and go straight o... LEN GOODMAN I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on mess... J. A. KONRATH A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves... CARLY CRAIG I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don... GARY NUMAN When I was 13, I would come visit my aunt and uncle in New York. I decided I wanted to live with the... PRIYANKA CHOPRA I don't see anybody categorized as a 'fashion diva,' except for me! And I like that. I a... DONATELLA VERSACE I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. M... JASON BATEMAN I like to be home on a Friday night. I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my th... KALEY CUOCO I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I... BARRY WHITE I don't care what you say about me anymore! I don't care what you write about me anymore. I ... GERRY COONEY Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when... URS FISCHER I feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I jus... TAVI GEVINSON I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting ... BRUNELLO CUCINELLI 'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, sev... ODETTE ANNABLE The best place for me is in my car, listening to my stereo. I am 'Mr. Karaoke Guy' in the ca... DRAKE BELL Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don't relish that title. I don... AL JOURGENSEN I don't even know what an 'It' girl is. As far as I'm concerned, an 'It' gir... SIENNA MILLER I just don't get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to. RON SILVER I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature... ANDY SERKIS Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on... SAMUEL BECKETT Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a fac... NAWAL EL SAADAWI I don't plan out my visits rigorously, but I do have a list of about 125 New York galleries, alt... JERRY SALTZ I went to school in New York and grew up in and out of New York. I love it, and I miss it, and every... SARAH HAY I don't have a permanent place where I live. I'm in Atlanta about six or seven months out of... BROOKE ELLIOTT When I was 16, I was in Boston and some friends said, 'You want to go to New York?,' I went ... STANA KATIC Leaving the record companies tweaked something inside me and I realised I don't have to deal wit... IMOGEN HEAP I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I becom... DAVID LYNCH I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't ... JAMES MCAVOY You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS When I'm getting ready for a movie, let's just say my diet is 'The Antisocial Diet.'... JASON STATHAM I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to Ne... MANISH DAYAL I don't text, I don't have a Blackberry. Literally, I just have a cell phone that I haven... STEVE CARELL My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't ... CAMILLE PAGLIA I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don... MELISSA ETHERIDGE I take my hair, and I just play with it. I'll just take my hand, I'll mess with the front, a... BLAKE JENNER I did not have a happy family life a few years ago. I was divorced, and I was very alienated from my... ALEC BALDWIN My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore becaus... BELLA THORNE My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body. ELVIS PRESLEY I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Loui... GABRIEL BASSO It is just a crazy life as a sportsman. My daughter, Sam, wants to go into tennis, and I tell her, &... ERNIE ELS I never rebelled against my parents - I worked hard, I was responsible, and I didn't go to high-... LINDSAY LOHAN Sometimes I make it to parties and sometimes I don't. Social life is always something you can go... CARMEN BUSQUETS I don't like to do much with my hair - which is good, because I don't know how! I just alway... CHYLER LEIGH I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects. JOSE MOURINHO I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to. LADAINIAN TOMLINSON I don't care about the money. I'm just interested in the perks. I'll do a series if I am... HARRY MORGAN I think women in Hollywood who don't do Botox and plastic surgery are revered. I revere them... ... EVANGELINE LILLY Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things. IGGY AZALEA When I go to parties, there's a moment when I think, 'I really don't belong here.' CHERI OTERI My life is really quite conservative. I've been married nearly 50 years. I don't have hobbie... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN I don't do evening business dinners, and I don't do weekends. ZHANG XIN I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuf... M.I.A. I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don... HOWARD HODGKIN I drop my kid off at school and then race home, and it's a very limited time. I can only do real... MARIA SEMPLE I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment. SAINA NEHWAL I was very lucky because Tim Burton really gave me a career. I don't think Hollywood would'v... WINONA RYDER I'm depressed when I don't get to do music. Having to go back to doing something I don't... KIP MOORE As far as I'm concerned, dance is a passion for me. I don't do homework and go to the sets. ... REMO D'SOUZA I don't have any regrets about not having kids. I've just never had those maternal feelings.... BARBARA WINDSOR All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they t... AL STEWART I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a... GENEVIEVE BUJOLD I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is o... SALMAN KHAN My favorite musical? I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally o... TREY PARKER I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I d... VALERIE BERTINELLI I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with some... PETER ACKROYD I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's a... DONALD JUDD
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CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is t... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family.... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types ... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to des... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet.... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can wo... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revo... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, ... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, t... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA When anything goes, it's women who lose. CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her a... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion.... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking ru... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminis... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality. Every pregnant woman has bo... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being arou... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and inte... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mat... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. ... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie pro... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle. CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against th... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually r... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of ... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always ex... CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA