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"I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now."
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"Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences."
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"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."
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"The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out."
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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
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"We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it."
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"Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach."
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"The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent."
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"Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git."
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"Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens."
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"A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid."
Freedom

"The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors."
Actor

"The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is."
Man

"There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind."
Music

"You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to."
Want

"Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter."
Laughter

"After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films."
War

"The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd."
May

"I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer."
Dream

"The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment."
Enjoyment
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