Diversity - both in ideas and people - has always been one of the country's greatest assets.
Obviously, everyone looks at whether we bring young footballers into the first team, that's one of the goals. But I wouldn't discard someone who is successful in life, that's big. The hall of fame in the academy should be a wide variety of stories.
I'm not so Hollywood; I live in New York, so it's very normal. I don't have many friends in the industry. My friends come from all sorts of different backgrounds and careers.
We came from many roots, and we have many branches.
Everyone is different: different shapes, sizes, colors, beliefs, personalities, and you have to celebrate those differences.
I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.
We may differ widely in environments, education, learning, knowledge, or lack of it, and in our personalities, our likes and dislikes. But if we set ourselves the task, we'll find a meeting place somehow and somewhere.
Everyone's got a different story.
You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decision.
There are many types of education: formal education, street education, personal education, experiential education, and I've found that I've had different partners who have a lot of wonderful intellect and education from all different types of sources.
News channels have always had interview shows, but we need different kinds of interviews with different kinds of interviewers - interviewers who bring different life experiences to the table.
To have a diverse set of perspectives and backgrounds enables you to understand the market at large much more effectively.
I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer.
My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.
I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and the poor.
I have the appetite to do different roles that have different backdrops. I'd like to show that there's more to people sitting in cars for reasons other than being police officers.
What are Americans? We've got everything from sharecroppers to atomic physicist here, and there's certainly no uniformity in their thought processes. There's very little they have in common. In fact, Americans should we say, have less in common than any other nationality.
