Adrian Grenier Quotes

I'm married to an American, so I guess that has changed my perspective on the subjects I can write about.

When I chose to leave a career as a young lawyer in Washington to move to Arkansas to marry Bill and start a family, my friends asked, 'Are you out of your mind?'

I'm now in my late 30s, and I've been thinking a lot about marriage and family. To be honest, I've decided to push aside thoughts of marriage and personal questions for now.

I haven't done the milestoney things - getting married, buying a house, having children.

I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.

When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have left me. I am a naturalized American and my sensibility has become far more American.

My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.

My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.

A lot of what I experienced growing up in the U.S.S.R. and coming to the U.S. as an immigrant actually reflects itself in Whatsapp. Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life.

I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.

It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens.

I come from a multicultural family.

I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.

There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me.

I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during the third year he was there. And when I was 16, I returned to Mexico to learn Spanish.

I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.

I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the variety of it are astonishing to someone not born there, and I'm convinced that its energy and generosity have somehow rubbed off on me and affected my writing. For the better.

If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative.

I remember, the first time I came to the United States in 1996, I didn't speak a word of English at the beginning. I am very thankful for this country and the opportunity music has given me... My three kids were born here in Miami; they speak Spanish at home, but English with all their friends.

I never had to say to myself, 'OK now, I've got to grow up and work for a bank, or go and sell real estate.' I never had to make that kind of break.