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For whatever reason, Tony Soprano was very available and recognizable to a great number of people who had never gone near a mobster, who'd never eaten a meatball sandwich. They related to that guy; they saw who he was.”
The Sopranos creator David Chase to Sam Kashner and Jim Kelly, “The Family Hour: An Oral History of [the HBO series] The Sopranos,” April 2012
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