Quotes About Culture

I studied in Kerala, so learnt to read and write Malayalam.

Before I worked on film, I studied the theatre, and I expected that I would spend my whole career in theatre. Gradually, I started writing for the cinema. However, I feel grateful towards the theatre. I love working with spectators, and I love this experience with the theatre, and I like theatre culture.

I had an amazing French teacher in high school - it was the one class that I enjoyed. And I studied opera for 11 years, so I did a lot of singing in French.

I studied a lot from bossa nova, and I used to listen to it a lot as a kid because my mum would play it. I even wanted to learn Portuguese in high school so I could sing in it.

I tend to bristle at people praising alt comics as some kind of perfect comics paradigm, because there's quite a lot of misogyny in its history as well. Like, in my first comics class, every single great comic creator we studied was male.

I have always loved languages, I have studied basic French and Japanese too.

When I first heard the minstrel banjo - I played a gourd first - I almost lost my mind. I was like, Oh, my god. And then I went to Africa, to the Gambia, and studied the akonting, which is an ancestor of the banjo, and just that connection to me was just immense.

I studied music at Dakhhini.

I got involved in cultural studies because I didn't think life was purely economically determined. I took all this up as an argument with economic determinism. I lived my life as an argument with Marxism, and with neoliberalism. Their point is that, in the last instance, economy will determine it. But when is the last instance?

I enrolled to do a TAFE course on Indigenous Studies, and over the next two-and-a-half years of my course I learned so much about my people and my culture in a broader sense. It made me so proud of my Aboriginality and our history in this country, which dates back over 40,000 years.

I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.

I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

I'm double majoring in social studies - which is sociology, anthropology, economics, and philosophy - and African-American studies.

I was an international studies major.

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

I majored in English with a specialization in creative writing along with Asian American Studies.

At school, my favourite subject was social studies.

I ended up going into the Master's program for Asian-American studies at UCLA, in part because I was passionate about it, but also because I wanted to keep acting in the theater group that we founded.

I did a degree in media and culture studies in London and moved there when I was eighteen from Paris.

I graduated with a foreign affairs/Middle East studies degree with a minor in Arabic from UVA in 2002.

We used to go to Studio 54 - an amazing place.

What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.