The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.
Americans are obsessed with wild, outlandish things. Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse, and Michael Jackson are all wild, outlandish things.
I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think we're pretty much alike!
I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
You have the United States, and you have Mexico, and then you have this Mexican-American thing which is this third culture, which I like to call Aztlan.
I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.
American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
We have a version of Firefox for mobile devices, codenamed Fennec. That's a type of fox - South American, I think, with giant ears.
When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.
I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.
I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says “Bad war, good soldier.” Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.
The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.
There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.
Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.
No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.
If we don't believe in Americans, who will? I do believe. I've seen it in the people of our very typical corner of the nation.
That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with.
I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough.
