Quotes About Culture

American Sign Language is a language. It's fun to learn, and it's different from other languages because you use your hands, you use your face, your facial expressions, and there is also an incredible culture that comes with it and an amazing community too, and through that, we can support each other.

When you go to a new country, you don't have the same facilities as you had in the one before. You adapt very quickly to the circumstances.

I don't know what happens at radio as far as what is that X factor that makes a song click and have people get connected to it when it's in another language.

Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

I think British audiences are accustomed to the 'boo' factor and pantomimes.

Race is a factor in everything.

There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.

I'm a Bronx girl so I definitely have my little wild factors.

Real artists free of the tedium of money can use, now, all of society as an idea factory.

I've been to Manchester enough to know it's a real place. It's not Factory Records and the Smiths bicycling around. I get it. It's a modern city.

In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me.

I want to be the Ann Landers for fad people.

No, I don't think rock 'n' roll will ever fade.

We're very good in America at talking about stuff, often stuff to buy. We tend to talk about our iPods. We tend to talk about cars or new fads.

Contrary to what most people believe, fads are made, not born.

I hope to become the Dear Abby of fads.

With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.

I grew up in a Glaswegian house because my parents are fairly Glaswegian-sounding.

I'm read in the Caribbean with justice, with fairness. What I expect it to do is to encourage articulacy in the young.

I was always told that I acted too white. I was always told that I was going to date a white guy - which, in fairness, was true: I do have a white boyfriend. So they weren't entirely wrong, but all of those things were really damaging.

All in all Hyderabad is a beautiful city. I think I have fallen in love with it.

I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.

American sci-fi has fallen into the doldrums in part because of the anti-science sentiment that's so prevalent in our culture lately.

Country has just crossed so many lines now, that Skynyrd falls right into that category.