I just love the American spirit of racing. It feels just great to get involved with that.
I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us.
American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.
The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere.
If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.
The great trap for non-American actors trying to play Americans, I think, is to start thinking of American-ness as a characteristic. It isn't. It is no more a character trait than height. It is just a physical fact, and that's all there is to it.
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to t...
Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What was happening, he said, was "sinister", a symptom o...
Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?
I'll have you understand the United States has got the best navy in the world." "Well, . . . why, then, do we need a bigger navy?" "We've got to have a still bigger navy because we're the richest nation on earth.
At one point I would read nothing that was not by the great American Jews - Saul Bellow, Philip Roth - which had a disastrous effect of making me think I needed to write the next great Jewish American novel. As a ginger-haired child in the West of Ir...
After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.
There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them!
I still have a great deal of faith in our political system and a great deal of faith in the American people and voter.
The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact op...
I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.
Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.
Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.
One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.
One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.
No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matter how intensely populated for one purpose, can flout the necessity for spreading people through time of day without frustrating its potential for gen...
