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Lady Gaga: “I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.”

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

At age 17, she achieved early admission to New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Her music videos – such as clips in a recent Barbara Walters interview with her – show her love of costume artifice and theatricality – and play.
She admires photographer Cindy Sherman, another artist who intrigues me for creating so many [...]

Amelia Earhart: “I do it because I want to.”

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

“Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off! But if you don’t have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.” Amelia Earhart
She also commented, “Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the [...]

Healing and art: Exene Cervenka: “Something really bad is a blessing and a curse”

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Excerpted from Keeping up with Exene Cervenka, By Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times October 6, 2009:
“Exene Cervenka has transitioned successfully through a variety of career phases, starting with her stint in X, the band that perhaps best embodied the character of L.A.’s punk subculture of the early ’80s.
“She moved on to the rootsy folk-country side [...]

Courteney Cox on sensitivity, and needing to be acknowledged

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

“I have, like, hyper-awareness. It’s like a disease. I can’t help it. I notice everything.”
[From Courteney in Control, By Hilary De Vries, marieclaire.com August 2006; photo by James White]
A newer profile article says “Cox, who considers herself always to have been sensitive, has grown even more so since having a kid [5-year-old daughter, Coco]. To [...]

Michelle Obama, Sonia Sotomayor and the impostor syndrome

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Video and transcript from The Rachel Maddow Show June 4 2009 -
MADDOW:  If choosing a summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Princeton graduate with the J.D. from Yale, and 11 years experience on the second circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals—where only three of her hundreds of opinions have been overturned by the Supreme [...]