Quotes About Culture

Indian cinema is entertaining, and what I love most about it is the songs and dances in the films.

My background is from India, and I always get asked, 'When are you going to do an Indian film, a musical or Bollywood film?'

The thing people don't get about Indian films is that the songs are the story.

I don't compare myself with Freida Pinto. She has come a long way. She does only films in the West. I am open to do both - Indian films and films from the West.

I am an Indian to the core.

I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood.

I want to see more Asian. I want to see more Latin. I want more Indian. There's more than Mindy Kaling out there, guys! There's more than Bai Ling.

My family is Abenaki Indian on my mother's side. My father's side of the family is Slovak, and we also have some English ancestry.

I feel like I want to be an Indian all my career.

I can't believe all this is happening to me, but I am definitely here to stay. And I am happy to be in Indian cinema.

This century, the 21st century, will be the Indian century - and I really believe that.

Maintenant que nous (les femmes) pouvons devenir parfois, dans certains pays et dans certaines circonstances, des Hommes comme les autres, ce caractère qu'on croyait inné apparaît pour ce qu'il est : un conditionnement imposé.

We need to cure ourselves of being women. Not of being born women but of being brought up as women in a man's world, of going through each stage and each act of our lives with men's eyes and with men's criteria. And we'll never bring about this cure by continuing to listen to what these men gave to say in our name or for our good.

Il existe onze mots en gaélique pour définir les différentes sortes de pluie, comme il y en a quatorze au Québec pour décrire la neige dans tous ses états.

Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable--it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.

Harvard professor Amy Edmondson dubbed this sense of being free to speak your mind "psychological safety." It's hard to overstate its value. Psychological safety boosts morale, fosters improvements, and ensures that, in Andrew Wolstenholme's words, "bad news travels fast"—so problems can be tackled quickly.

They lived in a Wikipedia world, where knowledge was no longer required and only the ability to access it mattered.

Sposo Adolfo, ma il mio amore è Paco.

La vostra Italy non e' la nostra Italia. Italy e' una droga leggera, spacciata in forme previdibili: colline al tramonto, olivi e limoni, vino bianco e ragazzi dai capelli neri. L'Italia, invece, e' un labirinto.

Orson Welles used to say that Italy was full of actors—fifty million of them—almost all good. He claimed the few bad ones were on the stage, or the cinema screen.

L'Italia pero' non e' un'inferno... Diciamo che e' un purgatorio insolito... Un posto capace di mandarci in bestia e in estasi nel raggio di cento metri e nel giro di dieci minuti.

In Italia lo stomaco ha una valenza metafisica. -En Italia el estómago tiene un valor metafísico-

Predete il cappuccino: dopo le dieci del mattino e' immorale (forse anche illegale). Al pomeriggio e' insolito, a meno che faccia freddo; dopo pranzo, invece, e' da americani. - Un ejemplo, el cappuccino: después de las 10 de la mañana es inmoral (quizá es ilegal). En la tarde es insólito, a menos que haga frío; después de la comida, es cosa de americanos (gringos).

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display.... The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.