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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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"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."
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"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."
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"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."
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"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."
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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
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"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
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"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."
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"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."
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"The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy."
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"If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find."
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"If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there."
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"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"
Actor
"I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent."
Work
"People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different."
People
"To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all."
Want
"The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well."
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"My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised."
Medical
"I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year."
Mother
"My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem."
Apology
"We've always been involved with America - I have a son who lives there and it's a big part of my life."
Life
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