Quotes About Culture

I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

It's easier to write about a celebrity, a personality, than it is to dig in and write about the music.

Everyone knows it, but no one is willing to digest the fact that the lyrics comprising of slangs can also be a hit among youth.

Right now my favorite book is 'Omnivores Dilemma.'

I love being white, and I think it's something to be very proud of. I don't want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life.

In Australia, Chinese food culture has imparted flavour, dimension and excitement to the way we eat.

When you cast cross-racially, another dimension is added.

I don't want to live in a world without the diner and the coffee shop and the mom and pop places, the ethnic restaurants.

I've always been interested in Jewish culture, but never had a chance to dip into it.

I am a Kathak dancer, and have got an advanced diploma in it.

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

ABBA was a direct influence on me.

I've directed fragmentarily at the Herod Atticus, but never before a popular laiko unitals concert.

England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn't England so much as what went before.

Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.

Anyone that thinks 'pop' is a dirty word is living in the '90s.

Children being groomed to travel abroad or disagree with British values could happen anywhere.

Somehow after a few vodkas, the language barrier always seems to disappear.

The more celebrities I meet, the more disappointed I get in celebrity culture.

In India, I tried never to show enthusiasm for the things I wanted most, but instead to focus it falsely on something showy, ask the price of that and then make a disappointed face when told.

I have so much respect for when my parents did. They did not raise me talking about money and I would have disappointed them if I went to China.

It is disappointing to find that music in Malayalam cinema is drifting away from its strong melody-base.

I am constantly disappointing people up in Scotland by not being Scottish!