Fausto Cercignani Quotes
Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.
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I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.
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People in my confirmation process, on the right and the left, really loved that idea of having someone who's going to be in meetings arguing on behalf of the dignity of people who sometimes aren't represented in meetings. But by the same token, they have somewhat unrealistic expectations that I can kind of make my own policy.
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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
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Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
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In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.
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I'm more of a thriller-horror fan - things that could really happen. I don't like scary movies, the 'Saw' movies scare the crap out of me - I think I've seen two of them and I wanted to go crawl in a hole.
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The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
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My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.
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My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
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I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
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I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.
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It's important that we have a global perspective and look abroad and learn from our neighbors.
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Radio in the U.K. is so formulaic. You've got commercial stations who play the same 20 songs all day.
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Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.
