Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.
I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction.
I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.
Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on 'New Girl.'
The richness of America is that we are diverse. We're not Sweden. We're not Norway. We are a great American experiment. And as soon as we start trying to forget race or turn our back on race, number one, we don't confront the real racial realities that still persist.
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.
Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.
I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that.
People think jazz music is all standards and the Great American Songbook. But it's really about the sensibility, the feel you bring to the music.
