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The decision to write full-time meant I couldn't afford to buy a house. A friend kindly offered me the use of his apartment in a thirty-six-story building full of newlywed couples in the southern area of Jakarta. I didn't like my working space at first, but the scenery and everything going on outside have worked their magic on me. ”
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. ”
People want me to shut up, but I won't. I believe social change is possible; that's why I'm an activist. ”
People don't understand the tyranny of media. The few women that the media will allow in have to think about male approval and their own success - and their writing reflects that. ”
When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy. Because it's the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music. ”
I try to find some time for my horses. I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me. ”
Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed. ”
When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer. ”
Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother - who was a very religious person - so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience. ”
There are times and places for tune-ups and stay-busy fights. ”