Quotes About Culture

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

I do, I love to mock stuff. I am a British person.

I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a kind of an electrifying effect on this country; this was a time when there were a lot of good books coming out.

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

If it weren't for my Irish dancing, I wouldn't be modeling.

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

Where I grew up, we had light-skinned models but not dark. Every time I would talk about being a model with my friends, they would start laughing out loud.

Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.

I didn't grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear.

I think the rise of Asian models is an absolutely beautiful thing.

While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.

I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me.

Growing up as a South Asian-American, I didn't have any female role models.

Some Korean models may be seen in European Fashion Week, but it is hard to find them in New York.

We don't have glamour models in Canada at all.

Your look changes depending on your confidence, and then your beauty changes. When I first came to New York, all the people were saying, 'You look so Asian because you have a different eye shape.' They didn't really understand because they didn't really see that many Asian models.

As for my role models... you know, I'm an immigrant, so we didn't grow up with too much TV. My parents were like, 'You must read your books.'

I didn't grow up with a lot of role models necessarily when I started out - there weren't many people who looked like me on TV. Not in England.

One thing we do, to be inclusive, is that when we shoot campaigns, we ensure to do so with models of different body types, skin colors and with those hailing from different cultures.

I thought of Britain as a moderate place. Britain isn't a place of majority madness, we're not like that.

You are born modern, you do not become so.

London is a modern Babylon.

I don't listen to much modern composition.

Comics deal with fundamental archetypes. We've been called the myth-makers of the modern age.