Fausto Cercignani Quotes
Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record.
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
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I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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I feel what a spouse can do for you, no child or parent can. Just that if you get the right connect with your spouse, you get it going right.
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The writer is all alone.
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I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.
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'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
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Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.
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I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.
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And so, you know, you can be - and I hope that I am - a thinking Muslim.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.
