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Ruby Wax

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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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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"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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"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."

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"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."

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"I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then."

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"Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom."

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"What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind."

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

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

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"Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me."
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"I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself."
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"Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad."
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"I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home."
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