Rebecca De Mornay Quotes
I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.
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If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
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In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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I am not really brand-conscious; I pick out clothes that appeal to me regardless of the label, but I consider my style very American.
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Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
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I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.
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I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
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What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.
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To me, I was right from the beginning, because it's my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question, and say what I want to say about our government.
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The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.
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The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.
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Some things in literature are inexplicable.
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All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
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No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.
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America has had an influence on me, as has going out with a Cuban-American guy and having lots of American friends. But I am still fundamentally British and speak with a British accent and feel very English.
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But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.
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I am a huge fan of Gwen Stefani.
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RZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with.
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No child is bad from the beginning, they only imitate their atmosphere.
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I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.
