#erica

I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I'd consider moving back there one day. I never really left. ↗

— Tom Jones

#around #back #become #carry #consider

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#american culture #bit #child #culture #every

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#automatically #common #make #military #movies

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#greatest #language #living #mccarthy #perfect

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?' ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#american cinema #cinema #i #important #important question

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood. ↗

— Erica Jong

#church #circus #country #deserves #every

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. ↗

— Erica Jong

#between #brain #chiefly #ears #god

Solitude is un-American. ↗

— Erica Jong

#un-american

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#america #become #cease #city #collection

Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#american idea #citizen #each #going #her