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"America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese."
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"I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in."
"There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience."
"I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game."
"I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American."
"Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease."
"I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me."
"Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing."
"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."
"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"
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"The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other."
"Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?"
"America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese."
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