"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."

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"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."

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

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before."

Robert Pattinson, English Actor

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"Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire."

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"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult."

Arthur Miller, American Playwright

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"We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big."

Carly Simon, American Musician

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"In a single moment, we witnessed the worst of human behavior. And in the next, the very best of human behavior. And even more, we witnessed the tremendous spirit of Americans."

Jane D. Hull, American Politician

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"At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs."

Annette Funicello, American Actress

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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."

Eric Holder, American Public Servant

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"The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board."

Dennis Miller, American Comedian

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"You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are."

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"The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not."

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"If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic."

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"What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement."

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"I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do."

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"One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand."

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"Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve."

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

"I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before."

"Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire."

"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult."

"We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big."

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

"In a single moment, we witnessed the worst of human behavior. And in the next, the very best of human behavior. And even more, we witnessed the tremendous spirit of Americans."

"At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs."

"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."

"The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board."

Explore more quotes by Edward Albee

"You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are."

"The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not."

"If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic."

"What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement."

"I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do."

"I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor."

"I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you."

"A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth."

"One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand."

"Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve."