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Leon Askin

"I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me."

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"I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me."

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"This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus."

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"America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture."

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"I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America."

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"The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues."

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"So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon."

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"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."

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"If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience."

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"We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years."

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"Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends."

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"When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film."

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"1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too."
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"In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it."
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"It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession."
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"A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak."
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"From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life."
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"The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre."
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"We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany."
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"Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end."
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"My father was an ardent socialist for many years."
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"At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth."
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