Eva Mozes Kor Quotes
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
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The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.
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American literature has always been immigrant.
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I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.
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One of the choicest occupations here is ripping reputations into pieces.
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Coming back doing interviews is weird. It’s like an actor who takes a year off and just goes home, settles down, does some gardening, wakes up in the morning, worries about what to have for breakfast, then suddenly you’re plonked back in the middle of it all.
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I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.
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I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.
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I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
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The best part about living in New York is that you are able to play with different people in different styles in the same week. It's really part of who I am as a musical person. I try to incorporate everything that I encounter.
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This is not about race or affiliation, and it isn't about black versus blue. All lives matter.
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All these movies are observational comedies. I see somebody, maybe a dry cleaner, and notice how they are. Maybe I'll decide to turn a person with those traits into a studio chief.
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I remember going through school and doing art, which was the only thing that I actually found fulfilling, and I couldn't really figure out why. Then I got into college and started messing around with photography, and I realised that it was about getting the images that were in my head out in a way that didn't have to be spelt correctly.
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I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head.
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If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.
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As long as the team is pulling together, I’m happy to be a part of it.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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When you're on a football scholarship, you get a stipend that's supposed to cover your rent and a few incidentals. It was $360 a month. This was the late 1980s, and the NCAA has an interesting rule where you're not allowed to supplement your income with a part-time job.
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At Auschwitz dying was so easy. Surviving was a full time job.
