I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work.… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
My success is that I have these two great cultures behind me. One is Italian. I've continued to nurture that. But I… — Lidia Bastianich Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
“...I didn't feel that I was an American at all, with all that suburban ideal and sex repression and general dreary newspaper… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
One of the things that makes this so topical right now is that I think there are an awful lot of American… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
I have a lot of love for the resilience personified in so many achievements made by Americans. I feel not American when… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
I do consider myself Canadian, but I feel American, too. I've spent more than fifteen years in each of the two countries,… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Actually, until a few years ago, my English was very poor. I wasn't thinking of my American roots at all, until I… — Sergino Dest Copy Share Image
I feel that The American Dream is this fallacy that you come to the United States and win lotto. That's a disservice… — James Gray Copy Share Image
My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, ... So I never felt connected or… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
As a child, I used to feel much more American than Iranian. Like everyone else at school, I pledged allegiance to the… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
The reason I wouldn't dare to write a Western is simply because that seems to be so much a part of American… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“you know when i was a little kid in oregon i didn't feel that i was and american at all, with all… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
