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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
"In school they told me I was a Jew, "a filthy Jew." At first I asked myself what exactly that was. But then I began to understand. I was a Jew, I was a member of the Jewish faith, the Jewish community. One time, when I was giving a reading at a school, someone asked me: "If it was so dangerous to be Jewish, why didn't you convert to Christianity?" My response was: "It's not as easy you think. When you're a Jew, you're a Jew." --
Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
#Reading Quotes
#School Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
“America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president.”
“I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.”
Source : Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.
“Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.”
“I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.”
“Just the same as I mix each track to connect them together to build a story, it's the same with the message, each scripture and passage is building up a story and a testimony in a way that's going to connect with people.”
“I think a lot of people are projecting their own troubles and fears concerning sexuality onto those around them, and it does result in the perpetuation of a lot of hateful notions. As long as I can remember, I've felt really horrified watching those dynamics play out.”
“Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.”
Source : Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.40
“I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.”
