I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.
Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.
William Maxwell Aitken, Businessman (1879) |
Alastair Campbell, Journalist (1957) |
Dixie Carter, Actor (1939) |
Bennett Cerf, Journalist (1898) |
Hal David, Musician (1921) |
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet (1803) |
Tom T. Hall, Musician (1936) |
Yahya Jammeh, Politician (1965) |
Janis Karpinski, Soldier (1953) |
Jamie Kennedy, Actor (1970) |
Pedro Calderon De La Barca, Dramatist (1681) |
Robert Capa, Photographer (1954) |
Leonora Carrington, Artist (2011) |
Desmond Dekker, Musician (2006) |
Graham Kennedy, Entertainer (2005) |