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"It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country."
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"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."
"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"
"Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country."
"Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty."
"We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it."
"To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country."
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"Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game."
"The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me."
"I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference."
"I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures."
"There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead."
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