Oskar Schindler Quotes
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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There was a mission: To match the cover of 'Extraordinary' to the cover of the paperback 'Impossible,' which was commercially successful. Consider the outdoor natural setting, the single girl in motion with her hair blowing, and the cursive font used for the title; both covers have these in common.
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If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'
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I used to read a lot of fashion magazines: my favourite was 'Nylon.' I used to cut out all the pictures from magazines, and I had this book where I would keep all of the stuff that inspired me.
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I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
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I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
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There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
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People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.
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I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.
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I hate remakes of TV shows - I didn't like the new Charlie's Angels at all - and I just don't see the point of going back and doing the same thing over again. Baywatch was fun and successful, probably because we didn't know what the heck we were doing.
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The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.
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Our first album didn't work because we tried to be something we're not.
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When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.
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It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.
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I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
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A great fig should look like it's just about to burst its skin. When squeezed lightly it should give a little and not spring back. It must be almost unctuously sweet, soft and wet.
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The IFP is here to put into practice what we preach.
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Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.
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You were born as the one you are.
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There are Jews who came from 102 countries and speak 81 languages - how do you consolidate them into one nation? This is where I saw my role.
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When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.
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I don't know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that's new, and hopefully will be fun, and there's plenty of stuff out there to cut.
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There are two - parallel - universes of science. One is the actual day-to-day work of scientists, patiently researching into all parts of the world and sometimes making amazing discoveries. The other is the role science plays in the public imagination - the powerful effect it has in shaping how millions of ordinary people see the world.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
