The 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few people wish to see the cultural diversity of the world disappear under a wave of American market dominance.


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Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is ...
TYLER FLORENCE
Growing up, money is important. And now I have a career where I'm making enough money to live. B...
TYLER JOSEPH
It is by these, the people, that I have been clothed with the high powers which they have seen fit t...
JOHN TYLER
I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people...
TYLER PERRY
These 10 pieces will give her outfits she can mix and match. In fact, she can create 20 to 27 differ...
BARBARA TYLER
We want to keep the children safe. We are not there all the time, so we don't know everything that g...
BARBARA TYLER
We have been lucky, the only accidents that have been reported were minor. It has been typical accid...
BARBARA TYLER
To help insure the children's safety, we need the parents to make sure that the child has all his or...
BARBARA TYLER
We have a lot of great kids that come skate at the park. I know safety won't be a problem, but just ...
BARBARA TYLER
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
ANNE TYLER
II would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them...
ANNE TYLER
I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? ...
ANNE TYLER
She thinks the people she loves are better than they really are, and so then she starts changing thi...
ANNE TYLER
None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life -- mother...
ANNE TYLER
Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the mo...
ANNE TYLER
Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the m...
ANNE TYLER
I always think about the fact that PewDiePie, who has tens of millions of followers, started with ze...
TYLER OAKLEY
The idea of money being something physical is almost entirely a fiction. Sure, you can go to your AT...
TYLER WINKLEVOSS
Dartmouth is a small school with high-caliber teaching. Our classes were all taught by professors, n...
AISHA TYLER
A manufacturing nation is, in every sense of the word, dependent on others. Look to England! Cut off...
JOHN TYLER
I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I...
TYLER FLORENCE
While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
ANNE TYLER
I was raised by a single dad. Dad's idea of hanging out with your kid or day care was give her $...
AISHA TYLER
I've always loved video games. I played 'Ms. Pac-man' with my dad, and I Ioved 'Gala...
AISHA TYLER
Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the m...
JOHN TYLER
When I graduated from college, I got a 9-to-5 traditional job doing social media for a company, and ...
TYLER OAKLEY
The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the ...
JOHN TYLER
There are times when we look back and think, 'Do you remember when we had to lug a piano downsta...
TYLER JOSEPH
Nothing is ever a barometer. Nothing is ever for sure except that this band has been around forever.
STEVEN TYLER
Macaroni and cheese was my mother's special dish. She'd also make jambalaya and dirty rice a...
TYLER PERRY
In elementary school, I loved the 'Bailey School Kids' series. It was about a group of class...
TYLER OAKLEY
I have a whole 'Halo' corner in my house. One time, when I went to Bungie, they gave me this...
AISHA TYLER
Some people would look at a backing track as something that would confine you, but it really frees u...
TYLER JOSEPH
I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, ot...
ANNE TYLER
We may have been born on third base, but we worked like we were starting from home plate. You know: ...
TYLER WINKLEVOSS
When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the ex...
JOHN TYLER
I'd never really experienced the West before moving to Colorado. The East Coast, where I grew up...
TYLER HAMILTON
I can't say that there's been some big change during my career where all of a sudden everyth...
AISHA TYLER
Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
AISHA TYLER
Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is ...
JOHN TYLER
Being misunderstood - that's the thing that scares me. Because my life is about oversharing.
TYLER OAKLEY
If you haven't forgiven someone, it does not hurt that person. They're sleeping at night. Yo...
TYLER PERRY