Quotes About Culture

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state.

We grew up in Texas. We ate fried chicken and steak all the time. I didn't eat sushi until I was 24.

I love watching live music. It's one of the reasons I love living in Austin, Texas, because there is so much live music.

Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.

Saying you're from Texas makes you kind of proud.

I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.

Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!

I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.

I'm from East Texas, yes.

Texas people are very open, because it's open.

If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal.

It's not hard to find a date if you are Jewish in New York and Miami, but its hard in Texas.

My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17 and I realised I wasn't Southern Baptist. That's not how I am inclined.

I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.

To be beautiful in Texas, you had to be blonde and blue-eyed and have a name like Ann.

I've never seen 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre', I've never seen 'Halloween', I've never seen any of the 'Friday the 13ths.'

Being from Texas, acting or music isn't really a thing to do.

I came from a family in Texas who simply never spoke about money.

Immigration, of course, in New Hampshire is - it's not something that you see every day. It's not like talking about it in Texas, where people have a much more explicit sense of it.

The Hispanic culture is finding its way into the American culture. Places like Miami are going to be centers for that influence - places like Los Angeles and, certainly, cities in Texas.

My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.

New Yorkers have their own way of speaking, their own tempo, and Texans are a lot like that. As much as you think Texas is one thing and New York is another, they're very much the same.