KJ Apa Quotes
I never actively went out and studied the American accent. I just came over here to the States, and it was something I was able to do. Like, I never struggled with it.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
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At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
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I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.
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Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
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British women can be slightly more reserved; Scottish are a little more crazy and fun, and American are more forthright, which I really enjoy.
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Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.
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After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
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My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
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I'm probably going to get in trouble for this but 'American Dad' is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there.
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Sometimes I think, 'Why should I care about doing well in New Zealand?'
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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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I'm Punjabi and speak Punjabi fluently and know all the Indian customs and everything.
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When I made my way across childhood to the tinny AM radio, it was dark. Lights out. I listened intently. More intently than I ever had before. Something was speaking to my unformed-ness like a long lost friend. Something that I had never met but forgotten nonetheless. I was 'realizing' that music was 'different' from other things in life.
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I never actively went out and studied the American accent. I just came over here to the States, and it was something I was able to do. Like, I never struggled with it.
