There is a lot of anxiety in India about writers selling out to foreign audiences, but I'm neither flattering the Indian audience nor the American audience. I'm uneasily somewhere in the middle.
God bless the American spectator.
I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.
West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.
Of course, Mr. Hannity was outraged that any American would not cross her hand over her heart and repeat the hypocritical words, one nation. Whenever we come up on the Fourth of You Lie, I think of Frederick Douglas and his masterful oration, The meaning of the Fourth of July to the Negro. Pledge the flag? I think not!
Argentina and Brasil are both extremely good south american teams who'll play a central role at the worldcup.
People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.
Most young people now are very vulnerable as to what the American film aficionados are going to say. They care too much about a system that has no room for them. It's really a serious issue for me, because to me it's, how do I survive beyond a film that was disgraced or praised?
You know what needs to be done when you're a writer. You know what the job is, particularly if you're an African American writer, or if you deal with people, or if your subjects are poor people or people who need voice. So you don't really need to know whether or not you are doing the right thing. What you have to be wary of if you're doing the right thing to the right level that will surpass your own life. I'm hoping that my work will surpass my own life.
The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo!
One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.
My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.
I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.
The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against the American grain. Nevertheless, the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant power figures in the United States. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington. Their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments.
I don't like to have these words banded about, like "British sense of humor," "American sense of humor," though I'll be damned if I know what they are.
Maybe we didn't even have a chance. The message of American Pop Art was so powerful and so optimistic. But it was also very limited, and that led us to believe that we could somehow distance ourselves from it and communicate a different intention.
We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.
The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.
I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero. ' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for. . . that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.