Quotes About Culture

Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught.

Tumblr culture and the whole reappropriation-without-context thing are a double-edged sword in that they both raise awareness of my work and also kind of devalue it at the same time.

I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.

The great thing about coming to Melbourne is that people talk about Sydney being the food capital but Melbourne is a lot more; it has that residential feel, a feeling of homeliness. When you go to restaurants, it's known as a creative, artistic city. That's what you get with the food.

I remember that feeling when I was a young reader: finding books that were set in Sydney with Australian characters was incredibly exciting.

Film directors don't come to the theatre in Sydney. In London and New York, they do.

I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.

When you look at the fittest, leanest populations like Japan and Scandinavia, they don't even go to the gym. The average person in Sydney takes 11,000 steps a day, and the average person in Houston does 4000. Guess who is going to be leaner, regardless of their diet?

There's parts of Sydney totally indistinguishable from West London. It's exactly the same - the sense of capitulation, discouraging assimilation.

I'm an Australian - I grew up in Melbourne and Sydney - but as a kid you don't learn much about the Kimberley.

My first five years on this planet were spent in Sudan and Zambia and after a short stint in London my family finally settled in Sydney. Right off the bat I knew I was different from the other kids.

Sydney has such a cosmopolitan feel to it. The food is great and Australians are so friendly.

I am all about the arts and whenever I go to New York, London or Sydney I check out the latest plays, musicals and concerts. It is an obsession for me!

A British actor will savour every syllable of a Shakespearean line, while a French actor will drive to the end of a sentence or a speech with a propulsive rhythm: the thing you never say to a French actor is, 'Take your time.'

True flexibility is a symbiotic partnership between employer and employee and between technology and culture.

Hollywood and fashion are symbiotic partners, especially during awards season.

The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.

The automobile is an American cultural symbol.

I look at the Star of David as a symbol of righteousness.

Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.

I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.

Broadway is a definite symbol of New York. It's classic New York.