"The Israeli mentality was totally different to mine. They just didn't understand people like me. They couldn't understand why I had been in a ghetto. We were totally different."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Edgar Hilsenrath

#Ghetto Quotes #People Quotes #Different Quotes

“If you are the writer/director especially, no one cares more about the project than you do. You know it in and out. You created it. So always listen to input but don't be afraid to veto and fight decisions that you know instinctively are wrong.”
“A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.”
“The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting its qualities in detail, hammering at it, putting it near flame, pouring different acids on it, and then finally you figure out what it is, or you just give up and mount it on a ring and have an awkward chunky piece of jewelry that seems weirdly dominating but that you for some reason like. I could be wrong about field geology here.”
“We talk about the American Dream, and want to tell the world about the American Dream, but what is that Dream, in most cases, but the dream of material things? I sometimes think that the United States for this reason is the greatest failure the world has ever seen.”

Source : Eugene O'Neill, Mark W. Estrin (1990). “Conversations with Eugene O'Neill”, p.230, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.”
“The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.”
“Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.”
“There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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