How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.
'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.
Very exceeding wonderful is the history concerning Abraham, for the kingdom of Christ is therein wholly represented.
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.
We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.
If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.
Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band.
Making a new car is so expensive that the risk factor is what takes the unique ideas and keeps reanalyzing them until they become very similar.
As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.
My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.
My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.
I come from a very working class background. My dad worked in a factory for 40 years. We all put ourselves through school.
I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.
But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.
