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When I was general director of City Opera, we were pioneers in the practice of projecting supertitles so that American audiences finally could know what all the singing was about.

~Beverly Sills

Topics: About American Audiences City Could Director Finally General Know Opera Pioneers Practice Projecting Singing Were

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I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Am America American Asian-American Been Citizens Deliver Demand Dream Equally Promises Race Really Rejection Treachery I Am

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Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: American Beings Complex Fiction Human Human Beings Just Mainstream Make New Other Readers See Through

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I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: America American Appreciate Me Myths National Offer Qualities Special Truly

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I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: American Belong Different Different Kind Empowered Feel Filters Here Kind Light Longer More Stay Very Work Writer I Feel

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There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American writer, not being white and brought up on wheat germ. My fiction got lost.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: American Audience Being Books Brought Conceive Fiction Germ Got Indian Indians Lost Me North North American Regard Up Wheat White Writer

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The Indian context is unique. The market is very large, and I believe there is enough room for many players to innovate on different parts of the transportation business. That said, if somebody just brings an American concept to India, it'll only go so far. You have to build for the Indian needs and dynamics.

~Bhavish Aggarwal

Topics: American Believe Brings Build Business Concept Context Different Different Parts Dynamics Enough Far Go India Indian Innovate Just Large Many Market Needs Only Parts Players Room Said Somebody Transportation Unique Very You I Believe

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The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.

~Bianca Jagger

Topics: American Bearing Become Being Believe Could Fact Help Importance Innocent Innocent People Lives Mere People Present Save Voice Voiceless Why Witness I Believe I Believe In

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I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

~Bianca Jagger

Topics: Am American Based Closer Concepts Ethics European Ideals Than Viewpoint World I Am

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Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.

~Bianca Jagger

Topics: Affect Affects American Civil Civil Liberties Foreigners Having Just Liberties Need Significance Terrorists Understand Us

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