"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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"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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"I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before."

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"Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire."

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"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult."

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"We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big."

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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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"In a single moment, we witnessed the worst of human behavior. And in the next, the very best of human behavior. And even more, we witnessed the tremendous spirit of Americans."

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"At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs."

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"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."

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"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."

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

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"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."

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"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."

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"Scotland is the Canada of England!"

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

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"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."

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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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"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."

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