Nationality Bias Quotes

It is strange that no other nationality, apart from Arabs, have been accused of carrying out this action. We are surprised why Arabs, particularly the Saudis, have been singled out.

Killing a bunch of people in Sudan and Yemen and Pakistan, it's like, "Who cares - we don't know them." But the current discussion is framed as "When can the President kill an American citizen?" Now in my mind, killing a non-American citizen without due process is just as criminal as killing an American citizen without due process - but whatever gets us to the table to discuss this thing, we're going to take it.

For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.

There's a bit of a myth that you pre-suppose every European player is better than every English player.

I never used to be taken seriously as a Swiss person.

Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.

It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian.

If you're a doctor, or a scientist, or a computer programmer, it shouldn't matter whether you come from Nigeria, or Norway, or any other country on this earth. Today though we have a system that rewards ties of blood, ties of kin, ties of clan. That's one of the most un-American immigration systems I can imagine.

I've gotten involved in producing now, so the kinds of things that are more my own choice are more possible in that field because I don't have to be castable. I can actually get involved in getting stories off the ground that no one would ask me to be in because I'm the wrong age, the wrong sex, the wrong nationality, or whatever.

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

There aren't a lot of Portuguese models, so everyone always expects me to be Brazilian because of my features, sometimes even American, as I have a slight American accent when I speak English.