专四晨读美文：Angelina Jolie

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Angelina Jolie
Host: The first time you went to a refugee camp,
what was that like?
Jolie: God, it was, it was, it was Sierra Leone,
so, it was a different kind of a camp.
It wasn't the, it was, they were still having civil war.
And it was a,
it was a kind of just this area of people who had been,
who had had their limbs cut off from, from the violence.
And it was an amputee camp.
And it was probably to this day
the worst camp I have ever seen.
And I knew I was changing as a person,
I was learning so much about life.
And I was, so, in some ways, it was the best moment of my life.
Because it changed me for the better.
And I was never going to be,
never going to want for more in my life or be...
Host: How, I mean, how did it change you?
Jolie: I was very focused on myself,
on my career, on my life, on this.
You know, we have so much and we, we want for other things,
and we don't realize how grateful we should be about things.
I'd been, done things, you know, like most teenagers,
you know, hurting myself,
or doing things, you know, all those things.
You take your own life for granted.
And then suddenly you see these people
who are really fighting something,
who are really surviving,
who have so much er...
pain and loss and things that you have no idea.
And, as soon as I got to a phone,
I called my mom and just told her how much I loved her.
And I was so grateful I knew where she was
and so grateful I knew where my brother was,
that it just changed everything.
Host: Right. And, then, how do you come back?
I mean, it's got to be, it's always,
I have found it always a hard thing,
once you're there and you see that,
and your eyes are open and,
and your heart is open and your mind is open.
And then you come back,
and especially I mean in this world that you live in.
It's got to be such a strange, it's got to be surreal.
Jolie: By the time, I got on the plane and on the way home,
I, I didn't, I, I knew that I would somehow
commit to doing something with these people in my life.
And I knew that would be the only way to, to settle it in myself.