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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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"American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring."
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"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."
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"More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children."
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"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."
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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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"I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime."
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"European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films."
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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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"There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad."
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Explore more quotes by David Hyde Pierce

"On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny."
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"Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens."
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"I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had."
Death

"Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else."
Time

"I was chased through a chateau in the Loire Valley by a bunch of American school girls."
American

"There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing."
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"My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?"
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"You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week."
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"We all went to Kelsey's wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each other's house. A group of us got together over at Kelsey's and just read through some plays just for the fun of it. That may not be everyone's idea of a good time, but we had a good time."
Time

"From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment."
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