Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
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I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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For the naysayers that claimed 'American Family' revealed us to be vacant, unloving, uncaring morons of the materialistic '70s, this image will be proven wrong when Mom and Dad remarry... Make no mistake. This is not to emphasize the sadness of my demise but rather emphasize the love of my family and friends.
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I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.
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As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.
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Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
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It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?
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In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
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Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background.
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When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.
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I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
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Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
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I definitely love 'Camelot.' It's my favorite show. I'm a big 'True Blood' fan. I love 'American Idol,' and I love my girl J-Lo. The rest are my homework shows: 'Forensic Files,' 'Dr. G. Medical Examiner,' 'The First 48.'
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American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk.
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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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When I had my first child, I didn't write for a year, and I felt when I tried to start again I might actually not be able to do it anymore. I really could not do it well, and I felt out of sorts with it.
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There is a time to be chic and sportive, there is a time to be sexy and feminine, but it's hard to find the balance, and Tod's has done that.
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People who never get carried away should be.
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I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
