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Quotes About American

So I'm not really quite sure what Landis' plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story.
~ Jenny Agutter
In my experience, American office Christmas parties mean that everyone gets a thimbleful of lukewarm Champagne in a plastic cup.
~ Bari Weiss
That's very, very important to me, to give another narrative. And Netflix has not been afraid of doing that, as we see from the plethora of shows that they have, from British shows to American shows like 'Master of None,' which I've been very grateful to be on, too. Just giving platforms to people who haven't seen themselves on TV.
~ Danielle Brooks
In their plush melodies and plummy platitudes, many Rodgers-and-Hammerstein songs were secular hymns, which so insinuated themselves into the ear of the Eisenhower-era listener that they became the liturgical music for the American mid-century.
~ Richard Corliss
So many of my favorite stories, in any medium, are about friendship. Those relationships are so often just as emotional and complex as any romantic or family dynamics, and yet there's a dearth of resonant, grounded films about platonic bonds in American films.
~ Susanna Fogel
I do not think the American peoples are idiots. They are a very playful and sensitive people! I know them!
~ Roberto Benigni
The American people are incredibly generous and even playful when you open yourself up and feed the media beast until it goes away satisfied.
~ Krystal Ball
I don't know of any American playwrights who earn the bulk of their living writing plays. Many of the older ones teach, while a growing number of younger ones write for series television.
~ Terry Teachout
A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
~ Sam Shepard
Please, let's talk to American families and sit around the dinner table at night figuring how to pay their bills.
~ Paul Manafort
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests.
~ Alice Morse Earle
I'm painted as this war profiteer by Congress. Meanwhile I'm paying for all sorts of intelligence activities to support American national security, out of my own pocket.
~ Erik Prince
The American public is rightfully asking, 'Hey, all those funds are coming out of my pocket, so I want to know where they're going.'
~ Scott Garrett
Climate change may not be the most important issue to every American, but strong majorities do consider it a major problem, and they aren't likely to take seriously a candidate who denies the science and who is plainly in the pocket of the polluters.
~ Sheldon Whitehouse
It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.
~ Samuel Adams
It's very important to me to be an American poet, a Jewish poet, a poet who came of age in the 1960s.
~ Edward Hirsch
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
~ W. H. Auden
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
~ Diane Wakoski
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
~ Robert Morgan
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
~ Diane Wakoski
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
~ Charles Olson
A film is a film and it has to be good to be inspired. That's number one. It can be Italian, French, German, American. It's moving images in front of you and with a strong director who injects his point of view and artistry.
~ Alexandre Desplat
To me, I was right from the beginning, because it's my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question, and say what I want to say about our government.
~ Natalie Maines