Quotes About Culture

If there was a horror movie showing somewhere in Liverpool between 1967 and 1975, I saw it.

I think mainly my devotion to horror comes from international horror movies and literature.

I wasn't a fanboy of horror. I didn't grow up on horror movies. I grew up loving all movies. I still love all movies, but I particularly love scary movies - as much for the culture around them as the movies themselves.

Horror movies make a lot of money in India.

I really liked the idea of a talking horse in a human world.

Wole Soyinka's 'Death and the King's Horseman' is a play I go back to and I read often.

Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

The circus was born with animals, horses at the start. This is part of our cultural heritage. It's a whole, with clowns and acrobats.

The last time I saw Dad alive, he was in the hospital. He was watching 'Hell Drivers,' a crummy B-movie about truckers, on TV and reading the 'Daily Record.' This seems scarcely believable, but I actually said, 'Dad, you've not got long to go - don't you think you should be imbibing the culture a bit more?'

We are a resilient people defined by our hospitality.

How can you franchise hospitality?

I want to host and write a 'Sex in the City'-type travel show.

I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.

The locale does not determine the dress code; the host does.

India is such a great host to not just me, but so many other DJs.

New Zealanders can be a little hostile.

We do believe in an inside-out culture. If we hold our hosts and guests to an expectation of acceptance and belonging, it has to start within our company. Otherwise, how on earth do we have the credibility to hold them accountable if we're not doing it to ourselves?

Everyone is friends with each other, and you have to like what's hot. You have to do all these things as if there's no real feelings. As if you can't dislike something any more. We all just have to be buddy-buddy.

Saigon is hot, full of atmosphere, activity, and commerce.

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.

I grew up in a household listening to hip-hop music.

My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.

You don't grow up in a Latina household where everyone is curvy thinking that you can be a model. That's just not normal.

I didn't grow up in a household where dinner conversation was, 'How did the market do today?'