The media is something that affects a lot of people, so you're constantly trying to strike a balance between respecting something and not caring about it.
Madonna CicconeIf we can elect an African American as president, we can support gay marriage! Defeat prop 8! We will not give up!
Madonna CicconeA lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of gay men feel that way because of their particular predicament in society and not being accepted completely.
Madonna CicconeThere are certain mystical belief systems that believe that taking pictures takes an aspect of the soul, but beyond that it's just the idea that once you're captured in a photograph, then a million presumptions are made of you, and you are forever frozen in that one moment, and you are perceived to be the embodiment of that moment, and that, of course, is an illusion.
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