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"In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me."
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"I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers."

"Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer."

"Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad."

"America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality."

"My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America."
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"I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird."

"I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive."

"It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another."

"I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine."

"I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments."

"The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think."

"I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects."
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