#eric

I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke. ↗

— Jamie Muir

#american #beginner #clarke #closely #drummers

I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?' ↗

— Carey Mulligan

#algebra #am #america #because #dreamt

When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't. ↗

— Mike Myers

#ask #correctness #each #europe #laugh

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#applied #got #harvard #i #repertory

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#borders #leaders #our #political #political leaders

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#american dream #any #comes #cost #destroys

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#based #happen #loses #poetic #poetry

I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#american literature #degree #english #finally #got

The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#american dream #best #best work #compromise #dream

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#american #american football #ball #ball games #baseball