Quotes About Culture

Tunisians are very friendly.

I enjoy India whenever I go and Sri Lankans are overwhelmingly friendly.

Swansea is totally different. The people here are so friendly, different to London where everyone is in a rush.

I feel very French and I need my life here; I need all my friends and family.

Pop country definitely frightens me, how popular it is.

Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

Fashion is not frivolous.

I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that.

There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier.

There is something fantastically post-modern about David Frost.

I miss Philippine mangoes, you just can't get them here. Mangoes, you can't get lanzones here, you can't get siniguelas, all these fruits that I grew up with.

In the case of 'Chernobyl,' we're telling a story of a government that runs on lies the way cars run on fuel, and there are people who ultimately end up paying the price for those lies - and a certain culture of denial is in place, and the degradation of expertise is in place.

I was very lucky in that my parents were very broad-minded. Because they had come from another country and hadn't been able to fulfill their dreams, they wanted me to be more of myself, if you know what I mean.

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.

America should function as a Christian nation.

The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.

As a young boy in Libya, it was hard to escape the conclusion that the women were the most feeling and most functional part of society.

We all know this: Music is such a fundamental part of life.

Change has to be fundamental to a company's culture, or there is no way it can survive.

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

People think of fortune cookies as being Chinese, but in essence, they are fundamentally American.

America has had an influence on me, as has going out with a Cuban-American guy and having lots of American friends. But I am still fundamentally British and speak with a British accent and feel very English.