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Cecilia Bartoli

"The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who decide; it's more a question of what you do with the voice, which is the mysterious element. It's the personality behind the voice which makes the artist. The voice is a gift of God, but if you're not able to use this gift, what's left? Nothing but a beautiful voice, without nuance or colour."

Source : OperaNet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

Cecilia Bartoli

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“The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of a few great ecclesiastics, but on the faith and virtue of its individual members.”
“This is what we bear, I thought, the nearness of other lives.”

Source : Jesse Ball (2014). “Silence Once Begun: A Novel”, p.173, Vintage
“I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.”
“Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this one, enter that world completely. Search it to find your deepest longings and most terrible fears. Let imagination carry you as far as it may, as long as you recount the voyage with excitement and wonder. But this is the most important rule: write the book you most long to read.”

Source : "Know thy subject" by Steven Saylor, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.
“If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.”
“Self knowledge is always bad news.”

Source : John Barth (2014). “Giles Goat Boy”, p.170, Anchor
“Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of knowledge produces a more rapid rate of progress, whilst the accumulation of capital leads to a lower rate of interest. Capital thus checks its own accumulation: knowledge thus accelerates its own advance. Each generation, therefore, to deserve comparison with its predecessor, is bound to add much more largely to the common stock than that which it immediately succeeds.”
“I've always been interested in people who aren't from anywhere in particular. I think it's all melting. This has been true for as long as I can remember in my adult life.”

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