Quotes About Culture

We love our children to experience different cultures, and we had media opportunities over in Japan and China and so we took our whole family over there.

I feel I'll take on the responsibility of showing the world a whole different kind of Latin woman.

Different cultures have different predilections for different kinds of crime.

There's so much to London, so many different kinds of people and people are the key to life, but my favourite part? It's got to be Bow, where I come from.

As soon as you start speaking in a different language or with a different accent, it changes you as a person.

I'm trying to know every part of London, to improve my English and enjoy the football. On my days off, I go to different parts of the city.

There were guys from different parts of the country, and absolutely I heard, 'Why are you playing football?' You just didn't see a Gonzalez out there or any kind of Latin name.

When you have people from different parts of the world coming together, it just makes it so much richer.

Because of work, I travel a lot, and because of that, I can experience different cultures and see and talk to a lot of different people, so I get inspired by that a lot.

Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'.

New York has a deep culture of house and dance music, and to be able to tap into that is my way of shutting off. I go to friends' parties and local spots around the area: places I can go to, have a dance, and forget about being an actor and the attention.

Here in New Orleans, what a lot of the musical families do - and this is a romantic concept on my part - is they teach their kids to tap dance first. Then after tap dance, you learn piano, and after piano, you get to pick between all the instruments that are out there.

The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.

Tap's foundation is jazz, just like hip-hop, so relating tap-dancing to rap is natural for me.

It occurred to me that by naming the film itself 'Dear White People,' I could tap into the burgeoning meme culture as well as make a meta-commentary about the controversies within the film.

Every city has comedians who tap into local culture and have success but don't travel well.

We do ballet dancing, Irish dancing, Scottish, jazz, tap - whatever country we're in or whatever culture that we'd like to present to the children.

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.

My parents always told me about VHS tapes. And the Walkman, everyone had those. I had never even seen one until I got onto 'Stranger Things.'

Our people represent a tapestry of interwoven identities embodying the rich diversity of what it means to be Jewish.

You gotta find that hook so everybody can grab on to it. So that you're true to the culture but, at the same time, how it relates to the larger tapestry.

We have a rich cultural tapestry in Scotland, it's not that there's a lack of stories.