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Stephen Fry

"It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common."

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"It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common."

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"Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences."

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"The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out."

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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."

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"Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach."

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"The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent."

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"Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git."

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"Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens."

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