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"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."

"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."

"The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out."

"A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times."
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"I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job."

"Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man."

"We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show."

"Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs."

"Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed."

"It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered."

"I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?"
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