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"You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young."
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"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

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"I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people."

"And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again."

"But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful."

"Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season."

"Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood."

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"I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it."
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