"What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences."

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"What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences."

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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

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"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."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."

Ralph Ellison, American Author

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"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."

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"I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then."

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"What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind."

Eldridge Cleaver, American Activist

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"Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends."

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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way."

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"I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes."

Jokes

"The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights."

People

"Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist."

Leader

"Scotland is the Canada of England!"

Canada

"I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight."

Being

"There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go."

Time

"Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show."

Pretty

"I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human."

Experience

"What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences."

American