Quotes About Culture

I grew up in a very westernised environment and went to a private American school. But my personality was shy and quiet, and I wanted to wear the hijab but didn't have the courage, as I knew my friends would talk me out of it.

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Because we had no other relatives living in the U.K., me, my parents and my siblings continuously journeyed abroad to bond with our extended family.

Like most kids born in China back in the 1980s, I didn't have any siblings. I spent my childhood in Chengdu and had the privilege of being both a boy and a girl.

In a Polynesian family it's not always about yourself, you've got to look after your parents and your younger siblings.

I was the first of my siblings born here in the United States.

My siblings and I are known as ABCs, American-born Chinese.

Being half-Palestinian comes with its own challenges, especially after 9/11 and also, working in Hollywood. But denying my own father, the three siblings I have on my father's side, I would essentially be destroying my own essence. So I decided I'm going to be me.

My dad was very much a Pan-Africanist and instilled in me and my siblings a want for that knowledge.

I am from L.A., my siblings are from L.A., but both my parents are from Guatemala, and I have a lot of family members from Mexico.

Even with my family, I feel sort of 'other.' I'm the only one of my siblings who wasn't born in Jamaica. For a long time, I didn't feel very connected to Jamaican culture, but because I was raised so heavily with that cultural influence, I realized that my inner monologue is a Jamaican woman.

I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.

Most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

I don't know why legal immigration even exists anymore when I can just put on some bronzer, get on a dingy boat, and just show up at the beaches of Sicily with the Koran in my hand.

My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are.

My dad lives in Sicily, so I'm half Italian and half Irish - it's a fiery combination.

I never forget my first emotions in football, in Sicily.

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.