Eddie Mair Quotes
… and if you want to hear more of that interview, fly to America and watch TV on Sunday night.
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
Felicia Day
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Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.
Abbie Cornish
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
Fareed Zakaria
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The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text Joe Russo to say, 'I don't think my character dies, so if you need a local news cameraman to show up in 'Captain America 2'... I know it doesn't make sense, but just hear me out on this!' He was really cool about it and turned me down right away.
Adam Pally
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Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
Ian Frazier
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We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.
Orville Redenbacher
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Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
B. B. King
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
Sam Shepard
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I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America.
Daniel Boulud
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Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousands of jobs in America, people are providing a vision for the clean energy future.
Frances Beinecke
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It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
Lady Gaga
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Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already seeing highway lanes that are for pay and ones that aren't.
Adam McKay
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There are these girls who live in Maryland: they're the Patrick Super Fan Club Association of America. They've sent me videotapes of themselves just eating and talking about Hanson, and a loaf of bread that was really moldy by the time it got here.
Patrick Fugit
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But while our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken; though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before.
Barack Obama
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And oh you got so much going for you, going right.But I know at 17 it's hard to see past Friday night.I wish you'd study Spanish,I wish you'd take a typing class.I wish you wouldn't worry, let it be.I'd say have a little faith and you'll see.If I could write a letter to me.
Brad Paisley
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Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me 'Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?' And I say 'Good God, I hope not!'
Morrissey The Smiths
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Ronald Reagan believed in America as the shining city on the hill - Morning in America. But Donald Trump has a much different vision of American greatness, of nationalism - a much darker view, I think, of the world.
Charlie Sykes
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Even in America, we're not a huge act by any means, Major Lazer.
Diplo
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Then the other door opened. I wen't rigid. If I had thought Reth's was beautiful, it was nothing to this soul. It filled the night with light, dancing and rippling like the reflection on a pond. I hadn't seen many souls, but I knew this one was special. I wanted it. I needed it.
Kiersten White
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I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.
Dwyane Wade
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Tom Bradford is a lot like the real me. He's a man who always put his career second to his family. As long as everything was OK at home, he was OK, too.
Dick Van Patten
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Activating is about changing people's perceptions of overlooked or invisible spaces. A building can become an archetype, invisible, like for a New Yorker, for example, the Statue of Liberty. You look at it, and it disappears into the thousands of times you've already seen it.
Chris Jordan
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… and if you want to hear more of that interview, fly to America and watch TV on Sunday night.
Eddie Mair