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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While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.
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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've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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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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I don't just whisper it, I say it and I say it: 'The United Nations is an anti-Semitic organization, an anti-Israel organization.'
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My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.
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I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
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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.
