America Quote by Molly Antopol

Switching the public's perception and view of me was, and still is, kind of a challenge to get them to see me outside of…

— Taylor Momsen

I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can…

— Gustave Flaubert

I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and…

— Douglas Sirk

The big change that's happened for me in terms of my own life and how outsidership is reflected in my work is that I…

— Ira Sachs

The groups I was hanging with, the people I was surrounding myself with, I remember feeling really unsettled about my life and the trajectory…

— Trevor Lawrence

I feel very drawn to characters who hide themselves and take great pains to disguise themselves from the world.

— Cord Jefferson

I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

— Harper Lee

I don't feel uncomfortable in America, but every once in a while, I'm reminded that people don't see me the way I see me.…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I was a teenager when 9/11 happened. And I really was uncomfortable with many members of our community feeling like they had to strip…

— Ilhan Omar

I was at a stage in my life where I felt sort of comfortable being a dislocated person emotionally, feeling in some ways like…

— Richard Blanco

I always think of my characters as alive human beings and try to generate questions around their life and understand their socio-political background. It…

— Abhishek Banerjee

I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my…

— V. S. Pritchett