American Quotes
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I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.
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You can't be an American if you don't speak English. Our public schools should be mandated to teach all children in English.
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Shouting down and intimidating someone from speaking their mind is not exactly a Vermont town meeting value, nor should it be an American town meeting value.
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Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.
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That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.
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I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough.
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What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.
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I've enjoyed my time in the American League, the fans of Southern California and other friendships.
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I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.
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Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.
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I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.
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I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn College I enrolled in a two year program at AMDA in the city (The American Musical Dramatic Academy) I was there for 6 months and loved it.
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I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.
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The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.
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One would like to say in the aftermath of the 2008 election that everyone lived happily ever after. But the American drama, especially when it involves race, is always more complicated than that.
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The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.
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The right type of [leader] is democratic. He must not consider himself a superior sort of personage. He must actually feel democratic; it is not enough that he try to pose as democratic-he must be democratic, otherwise the veneer, the sheen, would wear off, for you can't fool a body of intelligent American workingmen for very long. He must ring true.
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The world has changed. It's not enough to simply buy American; we have to sell American, sell our products and goods and services throughout this world.
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The BBC is very prestigious from an American's perspective, so I'm a big fan of it.
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I wish the American public wasn't so stupid if they realized that half the people on television make a living just to insult the other party.
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No foreign policy will stick unless the American people are behind it. And unless Congress understands it. And unless Congress understands it, the American people aren't going to understand it.
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It's about time that we create first class citizenship for every American plain and simple. Every New Jersey-ian. This should not be a popular vote. This is something we should do now.
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There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.
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So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.