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"I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England."
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"The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship."
"Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance."
"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."
"I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doing what I can to suppress it and I don't let it take advantage of me. It's not who I am. You know, I'm James Durbin. Like I said in the beginning, I am here to show America who I am, and it is what it is."
"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
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"And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy."
"You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me."
"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."
"They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all."
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