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Lara St. John

"Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways."

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"Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways."

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"I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in."

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"There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience."

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"I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game."

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"I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American."

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"Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease."

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"I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me."

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"Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour."

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"I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'"

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"Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing."

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"The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985."

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"Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong."
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"I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know."
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"For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general."
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"A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding."
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