#erica

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#american audiences #american films #asian #audiences #films

In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#i #i can #kind #like #make

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#american audience #audience #big #box #box office

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts. ↗

— America Ferrera

#behind #big #definitely #facts #grandfather

When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody knew about. My due date also happened to be 14 April. ↗

— America Ferrera

#after #also #american #americas #april

I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#every #family #friends #fun #games

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. ↗

— John Cheever

#american #american writer #ball #ceremony #describe

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#american president #applied #been #every #hanged

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#attempt #believe #consequences #detest #even

If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff. ↗

— Chris Christie

#anybody #barack #business #cliff #driving