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"The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself."
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"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."

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

"Yes, and it's my third movie with Richard. American Gigolo was my first."

"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."

"The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves."

"It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman."

"I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade."

"I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game."
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"It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions."

"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old."

"What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down."

"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."
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