#ric

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#go #haven #having #i #lyrics

I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#americana #catching #discovered #hamburgers #i

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#basically #enormous #groove #marches #militant

I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you. ↗

— Radha Mitchell

#american #american accent #because #caricature #create

I'd definitely rather be rich than famous. ↗

— Radha Mitchell

#famous #i #rather #rich #than

So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy. ↗

— Radha Mitchell

#around #art #did #fantasy #film

To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent. ↗

— Radha Mitchell

#american #american accent #easier #honest #me

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.' ↗

— Jessica Mitford

#election #faster #much #office #people

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. ↗

— John Moody

#inventions #know #largely #machinery #mechanical

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century. ↗

— Rick Moody

#back #boston #century #england #fact