American Quote by Rostam Batmanglij

Patience lives in the gap between our experience of an event and our response to that experience.

— Allan Lokos

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

— George Takei

To begin with, I've always known that I was a little bit different. And, I have a lot of relatives who own farms. I…

— Cary Fowler

I grew up very American but also fully Asian.

— Lana Condor

I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world of Bradford…

— Aasif Mandvi

I didn't fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive, I created this 'ideal America.' Finally I…

— Mitski

The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a…

— Hal Rothman

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams…

— Sue Monk Kidd

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

— Sherman Alexie

I've never considered myself a locked-down straight person. I've had relationships with girls.

— KT Tunstall

I’m never going to be considered brave for playing a straight person, and nor should I be.

— Ellen Page

I'm not a liar. I'm a pretty straight up person.

— Mark Hunt

A straight person doesn't have to go in the media and tell them that they're straight, and I don't think a gay person should…

— Michael Sam

To be a straight person and discover you're infertile is almost like discovering you're not a straight person.

— Dan Savage

I do a lot of comedy and I like that. I am happy doing funny films. I am often the straight person in a…

— Kristin Davis