Quotes About Culture

I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.

A biscuit in the States is something you would put gravy on with dinner, and it's not sweet in the least!

Biscuits are sweet things in Britain, and apparently in America a biscuit is something like a scone, something savory that you'd have with soup.

I remember dawn coming up over the Strait of Malacca; ragamuffin kids on the dock in Sumatra laughing as they pelted us with bananas; collecting dead flying fish off the deck and bringing them to our sweet, fat, toothless Danish cook to fry up for breakfast.

The most I ever ate? In one sitting? Maybe four big plates of fried chicken, biscuits, chitlins, gravy. Then dessert. Apple pie, sweet potato pie. My mother cooked that stuff, good Southern food, and when I was 300 pounds, I never missed a meal.

Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.

While growing up, my favourite part about Diwali was the delicious sweets.

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.

I am a true desi girl when it comes to my food choices and Indian sweets are my favorite!

When people call me the Amitabh of the Bhojpuri experience, I feel my chest swell with pride.

My mom was married to a Mexican guy - a surfer - and so we'd kind of camp out on the beach the swell season.

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.

We are neither prepared to deal with dubious companies nor have the mechanism for swift investigation. What's more we don't even have a culture, which imposes stringent, debilitating and deterrent punishment on wrong doers.

Interscope Records has always been a heat-seeking missile when it comes to shifts in popular culture, whether inciting them or reacting to them swiftly.

When the Japanese occupied Korea in the early 20th century, they brought their passion for baseball with them, and the game swiftly surpassed basketball and soccer as the nation's pre-eminent sport.

The ideology of consumption is so prevalent that it has become invisible: it is the plastic soup in which we swim.

Well, I swim quite a bit, and ride horseback. That's supposed to be bad for dancers, but I don't care - I like it. And then I collect dolls. I have them from lots of foreign countries.

People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought to get out and go and help a child learn how to swim or something. But after observing the Mexicans' capability for staring into space for hours on end, I decided to put in some proper practice.

ABC is owned by Disney, so it's a little more conservative than Adult Swim. Polar opposites.

I love the Altai Mountains. Crimea, despite all the conflict, is a remarkable place historically, culturally and physically. The mountains drop down into the sea. Porpoises swim in the shallows. Horses gallop through the grass. There are huge rocks, castles, caves.

I must admit I don't watch a lot of Adult Swim or Cartoon Network.