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New York was the Promised Land growing up. Writers were gods! The great gods of American culture... I thought.
I didn't grow up thinking I was pretty; there was always a prettier girl than me. So I learned to be smart and tried to be funny and develop the inside of me, because I felt like that's what I had.
I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.
I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.
I know that some people, when they are growing up and they - as a person of color in a majority community - that they may feel as if they are left out, or they feel a bit strange.
As a girl growing up in Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and then India, the idea of cracking the industry in America seemed crazy. So thankfully, the way I was raised was to be an open person.
The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.
If poor people are spending their own money, it is amazing how fast they will figure out how to keep a lid on medical bills.
