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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"
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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."
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"We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way."
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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."
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"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."
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"OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me."
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"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."
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"I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'"
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"Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else."
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?"
Art
"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."
Habit
"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing."
Sacrifice
"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."
Bible
"In heaven an angel is nobody in particular."
Heaven
"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing-a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."
Mortality
"I work as my father drank."
Personal
"Some donkeys have amazing luck."
Fortune
"Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children."
Family
"From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way."
Art
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