Quotes About Culture

I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.

We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.

One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.

I was only interested in music, but I spent so much time in the clubs and seeing fashions change. So naturally, I developed an interest in it.

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.

I look at art all the time. I go to the museums and galleries every week. That really is like food for me.

I think I have a very strange, hybrid accent, and I've worked very hard to get a solid American accent, which is what I use most of the time.

The first time I went to Mexico, it was really difficult. Number one is the language, I didn't know any Spanish language. Of course, the culture itself. Very different from where I grew up.

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

There is this sense of time when you're traveling, that the time is not how you know it, but how a country knows it.

When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!

People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can be performed in any accent in any time period.

There were a lot of artists in St. Ives. In fact, since the time of Whistler, St. Ives has been noted as an artist colony.

One hundred percent of the time, no plea bargain, no bail, you're going to the penitentiary - that will change the atmosphere in this culture of violence the president talks about.

I mainly buy books in my free time.

If it is a good song, it is a good song. The Beatles were pop, the beach boys were pop and it's the best music of all time.

Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.

Elvis Presley was the first and the best. He is my favorite of all time.

Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.

We're living in an increasingly nationalistic, xenophobic time, and you can see it reflected in societies all over the world.

You can imagine what a trip this is for a Jewish girl from Great Neck-I get to win an Academy Award and meet Elizabeth Taylor at the same time.