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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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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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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We were descended from royalty.
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Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.
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No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.
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When you're sad or depressed, you might as well get something done," Lydia always said. "Pretty soon, you're not sad or depressed, and darned if things aren't done.
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
