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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."
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Personal Development
"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"
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Personal Development
"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."
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"The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at."
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"Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so."
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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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"I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now."
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"Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences."
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"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."
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"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."
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"I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans."
Actor
"British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained."
Actor
"When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris."
Movies
"When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies."
Movies
"The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope."
Film
"America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture."
American
"My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality."
French
"When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation."
Creation
"The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact."
Movies
"I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can."
Movies
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