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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."
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"The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it."
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"I was surprised that the TV series was popular itself, but after that it went on to become more popular over the years and thus it seemed eventually that they would turn it into a movie."
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"Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all."
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"This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him."
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"I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that."
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"I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different."
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"Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens."
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"I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident."
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"Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller."
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"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach."
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"Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering."
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"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

"I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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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"As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff."
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"We've always been involved with America - I have a son who lives there and it's a big part of my life."
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"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."
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"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."
People
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