Quotes About Culture

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed.

You'd be surprised. A number of developers recognize that having a cultural activity in their space brings kudos. People like the idea of being near to creatives.

Panda - We're not really selling Chinese food, you know. Our real purpose is about developing people.

I'd love to make films in England, and I tried to. I think there's a wealth of amazing talent and astonishing writing over here; there just seems to be more of a culture of developing films than actually making them.

I'd always thought Australia was a rugby country, but football is really developing here, and Juve are extremely popular.

Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

Earlier, directors shied away from having a character speak in the Telangana dialect but not anymore.

I know how a Manipuri is different from a Mizo or someone from Shillong. It's culturally very different... the food is also very different, and so is the language and dialect.

I just love dialects; they're really fun.

The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with other cultures, why can't the people who are descendants of the Bible be in dialogue with other cultures?

Any dialogue about fashion is a good dialogue.

Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.

I love writing Scottish dialogue.

There's nothing wrong with anybody from any other country having a perspective on the British royal family. It would be interesting. But I just doubt that they would get the dialogue right.

We have been talking about public engagement for a decade. For me it is about recognising that the mission of science has to be embedded within our culture - the direction in which science is going has to be determined by all of us, and so we need a dialogue with the public.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

Dickens belongs to the English people.

There are a lot of very good New York novels, but there's no single all-encompassing novel, the way you could look at any number of Dickens books and say we know London as a result of that.

I've always told my children that Americans will tell you pretty much anything, but that convention dictates that we don't like to talk money or politics.

This dark diction has become America's addiction.

D.C. is in my blood, my diction, my sensibility and style. I am, though, in love with a city that cannot fully love me back.

The character of our language defines us, and dictionaries say as much about us as about the way we speak.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.