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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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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."

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"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

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"I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture."

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"Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences."

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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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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."

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"I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced."

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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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"Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew."
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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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"Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him."
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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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"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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