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" It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about. "

Steven Spielberg

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" When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews. "

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