Quotes
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Yasmine Elmasri

"In my opinion, those politicians are making decisions based on calculations related to polling numbers and strategic political agendas. But if they are to talk about refugees in a human way - far from how this would affect their careers or individual comforts - and if they, for a second, look at a mother, sitting on a road somewhere, holding her children, shivering with cold, and crying because they are hungry, I'm sure there is a part of their humanity that would shiver."

-- Yasmine Elmasri

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“I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.”
“It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.”
“Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.”
“I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull all-nighters to finish up some paper that's due first thing tomorrow. I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece. I want all my important possessions, my worldly goods, with me at all times. I want to hold what little sense of home I have left with me always.”

Source : "Do the rich just work harder? Some CEOs certainly think so" by Jana Kasperkevic, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2014.
“History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there.”
“When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own.”
“It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater; not because the pleasure it gives (although very pure) is comparable, either in intensity or in the number of people who feel it, to that of music, but because it gives in absolute perfection that combination, characteristic of great art, of godlike freedom, with the sense of inevitable destiny; because, in fact, it constructs an ideal world where everything is perfect and yet true.”
“Sometimes a collage element I hit upon can inspire the entire drawing.”

Source : Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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