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"I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year."
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"England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'."

"When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter."

"I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree."

"When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld."

"My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself."

"I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason."

"It would be better that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober."

"In England, there are so many TV commercials with nudity in them, and there are so many TV programs that show nudity on a regular basis. It's becoming more of a norm."
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"Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season."

"I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people."

"I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King."

"I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it."

"Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood."

"And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again."

"Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us."

"Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp."
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