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The happy ending is our national belief.

Mary McCarthy

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America the Beautiful

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McCarthy, Mary. "America the Beautiful: The Humanist in the Bathtub." Commentary Magazine, Sept. 1947.

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If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture you would be pretty much left with "Let's Make a Deal."

Fran Lebowitz

The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community

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Lebowitz, Fran. "The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community." The New York Times, 13 Sept. 1987.

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My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.

Garrison Keillor

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Keillor, Garrison. Address in support of the National Endowment for the Arts. Congress meeting. c. 1990, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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All our food: pizza, calzone, buffalo mozzarella, olive oil. These fucks had nothin'. They ate pootsie before we gave them the gift of our cuisine.

Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri

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The Sopranos

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"46 Long." The Sopranos, written by David Chase, directed by Dan Attias, season 1, episode 2, Chase Films and Home Box Office, 1999.

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You know my name, but who are you? Just another American who saw too many movies as a child? Another orphan of a bankrupt culture who thinks he's John Wayne? Rambo? Marshal Dillon?

Die Hard

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Die Hard. Directed by John McTiernan, Gordon Company/Silver Pictures, 1988.

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South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, "kiss-kiss" and "bang-bang."

Hortense Powdermaker

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Powdermaker, Hortense. Hollywood, the Dream Factory: An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers. Little, Brown and Company, 1950, introduction.

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