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"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."
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"If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European."
"So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true."
"If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion."
"It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it's always there waiting for you, unchanged, unspoiled, a big patriotic open space with cows and sheep and tenderhearted men ready to bugger everything in sight, man, woman or beast. It doesn't exist, America. It's a name you give to an abstract idea."
"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."
"We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country."
"I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported."
"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."
"I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs."
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"To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy."
"For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion."
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