"Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?"

Survival, Countries, France, Ireland

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"Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?"

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"That's a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty, but it's not really true. It's like you and your body are two separate things, like your body is betraying you, chugging on, idiotic and animal, craving water and sandwiches and bathroom breaks while your world falls apart."

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"Death is easy, you just take the gun or the knife and you just start to suicede by your own or you tell to somebody who is relative to you or somebody who is a friend it doesn't matter and you give him the gun or you say to him what to do and he kills you. This is easy, we aren't born to give up, we aren't born to die let's make ways, let's make our choices, even if you are down in the misearble place and you have lost hope and everything. You mustn't give up continue, stand up say that you won't give up, make few breaths and exhalations, then go to this road and continue. That's your mission!"

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"Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster!"

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"You can survive and strive in life."

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"When in doubt, choose to live."

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"Survive, survive and survive " these are the quintessential laws of Nature. But survive does not always mean being mean."

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"The safest thing to do when in danger is to be too stupid to know you are in danger."

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"You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it."

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"But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel."

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"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."

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"The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before."

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"I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone."

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"Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples."

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"No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations."

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"By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul."

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"For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles."

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"I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings."

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