Quotes About Culture

Wigan is the town I come from. We're all known as pie eaters in Wigan.

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'

There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.

But bread is different. I come from Czechoslovakia, where we eat lots of it, so it's hard to say no. I can't even have one piece, because when I start, I don't stop.

Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are.

I've always wanted to do a period piece.

I adore the classical pieces of our culture. The Greek and Roman are still inside and everywhere; it's impossible to disconnect.

It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Hair pieces and head dresses have always been something that's been part of my culture.

I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.

I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.

My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.

A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.

I really love period pieces.

I don't want to pierce anything. I think it's outdated. Belly rings and all are, like, old.

To be accused of ignoring my roots is pig ignorant.

There really is no ethical difference between eating a cat or a chicken, a dog or a pig.

You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact if you look at evolution on a bigger scale, cosmic evolution and you look at culture evolution you see it jumps, it goes through phase changes, and that's very exciting.

In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.

In British music, you have indie, rock... Grime is now one of those pillars. It's a foundation of British music.

Nobody knew if the pilot would even get picked up because it had two gay lead characters, which has never happened before. And now every show has at least two gay characters, if not many more.

I pinch myself everyday. Japan is a dream come true. The best food, the best people, a real paradise.