Quotes About Cultural exchange

In the meantime, the world had not come to an end in 1492. There were a variety of consequences of this non-event.

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.

The world has never been smaller and markets have never been more open. Don't be a cultural or geographical hermit.

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were ignorant of tradition and unimpressed by distinctions of rank; but it was soon clear that their young hostesses must be treated with the same respect, if not with the same ceremony as English girls of good family.

America was the attic of French culture.

Il peut sembler extraordinaire, étant donné les circonstances dans lesquelles nous vivions, de penser que nous nous réunissions fréquemment chez moi pour traduire le Pentateuque, plus un commentaire, en roumain. (p. 124)

Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.

It was really cool to work with Dakota Fanning. I've watched her grow up and I've always loved her films, loved her. It was amazing working with someone who was American as well, because obviously it's going to be a different energy straightaway. We got on really well; she's so professional and hardworking.

My biggest entertainment in Moscow was to go to the subway and watch people. When American students visited, I watched them; I learned English from them.

I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes.

I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean.

The people of India and Arabia have interacted across the waters between them for thousands of years.

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.

Leaving the house is a big enough occasion for me, so getting on a plane and flying across the world and playing to a room full of people is just out of this world.

The first time I took a plane to dance in front of an audience outside France was when I was in the Paris Opera Ballet School, and we flew to Japan.

When we played Paris, the English punks would come over, and they got to know the French punks. There was some nice scenes in the back alleys.

I think it's a good match, Dutch players playing in England.

I am one of the pioneers, along with those players who went before me, and I'm coming to China to help the league and help more players get to know this league.

Being in the Sahitya Akademi, I did know quite a few poets - Jayanta Mahapatra, Sitakant Mahapatra, Sunil Gangopadhyay, to name a few. There were many poets.

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

Everything I've ever done has been because of travel. Right from leaving Australia to where I am today - it's all been about exchanging different points of view. The most important lesson I've learnt is to look and listen to what's happening around you.

Food is the common language for all of us.

One of the problems in our lives is that people from different segments of our society just don't communicate with each other, nor do you ever see entertainment where they communicate with each other and fight with each other.