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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
- Barry McCaffrey
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When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like the writers on the old 'Dick Van Dyke Show.' You'll write something and they'll just put it on TV. But what you quickly discover is that American network television is television by committee.
- Jeffrey Klarik
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The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
- Irwin Edman
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We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.
- Theodore C. Sorensen
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American museums have become cautious, because it is very hard to get money to do something different or controversial.
- Pontus Hulten
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American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.
- Elizabeth A. Sherman
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As an American, you appreciate the importance of our security alliance, the importance of the economic ties between our two countries, and while I knew of the two bonds between our two people, until I came here, I didn't really appreciate how deep the people-to-people connections are between the American people and the Japanese people.
- John Roos
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Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.
- Gallagher
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You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way.
- Cynthia Carroll
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I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
- Jackie Robinson
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American strategic doctrine suggests that Mexico is of second-level importance to the United States. It ranks below Japan and Indonesia, Brazil and India, Egypt and Israel, and European powers including Britain, France, and Germany. This is a grave geopolitical miscalculation.
- Stephen Kinzer
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During the 1990s the United States sought to impose the 'Washington Consensus' on Latin American governments. It embodied what Latin Americans call 'neo-liberal' principles: budget cuts, privatization, deregulation of business, and incentives for foreign companies. This campaign sparked bitter resistance and ultimately collapsed.
- Stephen Kinzer
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Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.
- Mark Foley
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My grandfather always told me, 'You know you're American first, but you're a Greek-American, which makes you a better American.' It sounds sort of old-world and very sweet, but what he meant was that you should embrace those things that are most special and different about you.
- Melina Kanakaredes
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It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.
- Paul P. Harris
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I have found - and tennis may be the greatest manifestation of it - Americans have become more international in taste. Remember the old axiom that you have to have American players for Americans to be interested? And in tennis, it's just not true anymore.
- John Skipper
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After I began in elementary school, I was able to go to the movies, and that was how I would spend my weekends, watching several movies one after another and almost all of them American movies. This is how I fell in love, at so young an age, with American movies and culture.
- Shinichiro Watanabe
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I was influenced by American movies of the '60s and '70s, especially Don Siegel's 'Dirty Harry' and the films of Sam Peckinpah. And, of course, a lot of the film noir movies of the '40s.
- Shinichiro Watanabe
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I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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My mum won't speak to me unless I speak properly on the phone. I have to speak 'American' for work, so often the accent comes through when I'm not at work.
- Hannah Simone
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American sci-fi has fallen into the doldrums in part because of the anti-science sentiment that's so prevalent in our culture lately.
- Nick Sagan
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The 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed have had devastating effects on the U.S. economy and millions of American lives. But the U.S. economy will emerge from its trauma stronger and widely restructured.
- Roger Altman
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In 'Shadow Tag,' Erdrich creates scenes from a fictional marriage, that of two American Indians, Irene and her painter husband Gil, that suggest some of the worst psychological torments and stresses of real life.
- Alan Cheuse
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Exposed in the relentless Palin attacks is not just political bias but unmitigated class bias. The American mainstream media in its current free-fall is begging for more comeuppance when it continues to berate the values and lifestyles of the folks in flyover country who, in simpler times, used to be considered valued customers.
- Andrew Breitbart
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Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.
- Jennifer Armintrout
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Seventies cinema - 'Taxi Driver,' 'Deliverance' - that was the best period of American cinema.
- Gaspar Noe
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I feel that The American Dream is this fallacy that you come to the United States and win lotto. That's a disservice to The American Dream because the American Dream is worth striving for. And it's not easy.
- James Gray
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I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution.
- Howard Fast
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I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there's not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because I will never become an American movie star.
- Carice van Houten
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
- Carice van Houten
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In truth, it's not the shareholders of the American International Group who benefited most from its bailout; they were mostly wiped out. The great beneficiaries have been the creditors and counterparties at the other end of A.I.G.'s derivatives deals - firms like Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale, Barclays and UBS.
- Tyler Cowen
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Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one's own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.
- Bob Barr
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Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real people; including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.
- Bob Barr
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American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.
- Chris Jordan
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But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.
- Paul Robeson
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Israel's pro-American orientation exists not just among Israeli elites but also among the whole population. Come what may in Israel, it's inconceivable that this fundamental orientation will change. Combined with its overwhelming military power, this makes Israel a unique and irreplaceable American asset in the Middle East.
- Norman Finkelstein
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
- Nastassja Kinski
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I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I'd consider moving back there one day. I never really left.
- Tom Jones
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Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films.
- Paula Patton
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When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.
- Joe Simon
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In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
- Benjamin Todd Jealous
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As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.
- Benjamin Todd Jealous
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The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism.
- Richard Reeves
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Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?
- Sean Hannity
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So that they can actually make it known to the American people before they vote what they're voting for.
- Betty Hill
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I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.
- Betty Hill
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Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers.
- Lamar S. Smith
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Speaking as a writer, it would be difficult to find an event in American history more dramatic and riveting than the Civil War.
- David Zabel
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Bannon should never have had a permanent seat on the NSC, as he is a political operative, and the NSC has traditionally been a place where American interests are considered rather than narrow Republican or Democratic interests.
- Peter Bergen
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American Ballet Theatre's rehearsal studios are at 890 Broadway, an old building where exposed pipes clank and hiss in uneven accompaniment to piano music. The high ceilings wear a toupee of dust. The wall paint peels like a newbie ballerina's toes.
- Sascha Radetsky
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I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon.
- Heber J. Grant
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I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.
- Nick Denton
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Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.
- Kate Klise
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I'm Catholic. I believe life begins at conception, but I'm also American, and I believe in the separation of church and state. A woman's right to choose is the law of the land, and I support that.
- Conor Lamb
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I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.
- Faith Ringgold
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This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
- David Foster Wallace
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Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.
- John Mica
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I like 'American Idol' because it's an actual talent contest.
- Joel McHale
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I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.
- Lana Parrilla
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I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments.
- Inbee Park
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I grew up watching 'The Office' and 'Father Ted' and all the British things at that time - 'The Royle Family' - and the American ones like 'Friends,' 'Frasier' and 'The Simpsons.'
- Josh Widdicombe
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News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.
- Sam Donaldson
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In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture.
- Arthur C. Brooks
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The French Revolution was a kind of 21st-century moment in the heart of the 18th century - and Alex Dumas, outstanding though he was, could never have risen the way he did if not for that. The French Revolution was the American Revolution on steroids.
- Tom Reiss
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I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where a lot of American folk legends came from.
- Ted Naifeh
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We need to be united, and we all need to understand that we're all capable of achieving the American dream. And, but that has to be something that is self-realized. And also, to demonize someone for achieving the American dream is unfair.
- Stacey Dash
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Most American films have now become mindless. The human element has been removed, so you are just left with the surrogate human, which is the robot, so coincidentally or, rather, ironically, they are making films about robots, without realising they are talking about themselves.
- Steven Berkoff
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I always describe race as the final taboo in American theatre. There's a real reluctance to have that conversation in an open, honest way on the stage.
- Lynn Nottage
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I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.
- Rupert Graves
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There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.
- Mike Nichols
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The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don't get the attention, that don't have the money to make themselves representable.
- Snoop Dogg
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The number one focus of the American people has been jobs and the economy.
- Sean Spicer
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You cannot stop the men and women of the FBI from doing the right thing, protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution.
- Andrew McCabe
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I find it hard to believe that Senators or the American public will classify Sotomayor as unqualified, particularly given the thin credentials of many of our eighteenth and nineteenth century Supreme Court Justices.
- David Stras
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American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.
- Tina Brown
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I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth.
- Joe Frazier
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I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.
- Jackie Robinson
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I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.
- Jackie Robinson
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One of the best highlights of my Harvard business program I attended was I had 60 students in my class. I was the tallest, of course, but looking at the students, 30 of them were American and 30 of them were from all over the world.
- Zaza Pachulia
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I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.
- Wally Schirra
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We don't need American Idols. We need American icons. Icons of work.
- Mike Rowe
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There might be people who have never even tweeted before who are just working on their great American tweet. It will be so good that we'll all have to stop Twitter right away. I would like to write the great American tweet. I don't think the great American tweet has been written yet. We'd know.
- Megan Amram
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Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s.
- Linda Chavez
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Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism are replicating - soon Afghans will be hijacking American planes and bombing embassies everywhere. And their fears are not necessarily unfounded. The Taliban are unemployed war veterans, ready and even eager to return to the battlefield.
- William T. Vollmann
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There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.
- J. Maarten Troost
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
- J. Maarten Troost
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There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad.
- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.
- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!
- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Demagoguery is not unknown in American history.
- Michael Bennet
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I'm the only one in my family with an American accent.
- Lola Kirke
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There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with - a specificity of language that is somehow not as clear in a lot of American schools.
- James Avery
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I was a normal American nerd.
- Jack Herer
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Whether you believe in climate change or not, we want clean air. We want clean water for the American people.
- Anthony Scaramucci
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The Green Real Deal rejects regulation as the driving force of reform and instead unlocks the unlimited potential of American innovation and ingenuity.
- Matt Gaetz
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Unilaterally disarming the American economy through crushing regulations will empower Washington but few others.
- Matt Gaetz
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Evading military service has a long history in American life.
- John Gregory Dunne
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I don't concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances.
- Hampton Sides
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Because I'm an American woman, and I write straight plays, it's always been sort of assumed I would never be done on Broadway. But that was never the goal.
- Theresa Rebeck
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I'm not ashamed of being American; I'm very proud.
- Theresa Rebeck
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