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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?"
Explore more quotes by Carly Simon

"I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody."

"I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves."

"Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic."

"You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new."

"I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth."
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