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"I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America."
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"The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts."
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"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."
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"America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are."
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"When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find."
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"I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps."
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"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
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"If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong."
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"It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before."
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"I would like to see America some day."
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"I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America."
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"I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America."
America
"In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children."
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"And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled."
Woman
"In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!"
Football
"I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession."
Dream
"Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that."
Dream
"But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype."
People
"Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions."
People
"But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in."
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"But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing."
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