#erica

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#completely #different #form #formed #found

My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#american life #average #average people #create #developing

Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#american films #because #begin #comedies #comedy

It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#else #feel #girl #hard #imagine

I like Mitch Daniels on the fiscal conservative issues. You disagree with him on this idea that social issues, you takeoff the table. I do that for two reasons. I think the fiscal issues in a sense are a symptom of a lot of the deeper cultural issues in America. I don't think they are as disconnected as he thinks. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#conservative #cultural #cultural issues #daniels #deeper

The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#care #essence #everything #government #health

We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#anybody #because #becomes #care #come

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#been #civil #except #forms #mankind

The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'. ↗

— Ryan Stiles

#dancing #first #fool #living #rule

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets. ↗

— Sting

#american football #crash #football #helmets #i