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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
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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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"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult."
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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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"Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial."
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"Regis has a great rapport with the American public."
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"I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop."
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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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"I also mixed David Bowie's Young Americans album in 5.1 earlier this year and it will be available very soon. Even the original stereo mixes have been re-mastered and sound amazingly good, better than ever, in fact!"
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"The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery."
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"From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness."
Darkness
"I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else."
Home
"Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene."
Family
"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."
Chance
"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
Books
"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves."
Life
"I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride."
People
"For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people."
People
"If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed."
Reading
"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."
American
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