I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this was the first conversation of my life that concerned a book, and 'the life of the mind' - and now, such subjects have become my...
With 'Hip-Hop Saved My Life,' I attempted to make 'Kick, Push,' but for rappers. To give a real basic play-by-play of the life of a rapper before he makes it - if he ever makes it, because you can get stuck in that and be trying to make it for the re...
There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and 'live' with the characters.
I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.
You are loving as you think you are. You are caring as you think you are. Life is for endless love and for care. Life is for joy and happiness to share. Life is to appreciate and see beauty. Life is to love and help the humanity.
Sometimes I think of my life as a sitcom. But in reality, life is more than a series of memorable events that bring out the Meg Ryan in us. Life happens in the gaps between scenes. We live in the fade-to-blacks.
Americans are slow to anger, but once they do get angry, they are impossible to stop.
Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
Increasingly, Americans don't own America.
It is always a pride to die as an American.
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.
One of my favourites is 'American Beauty.' Spacey is so good in that.
The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.
Most Americans are very cool people.
If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way.
Most Americans want health insurance.
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.
Americans are artisans in freedom.
For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.
