Quotes About Culture

All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.

Besides having lived and worked in Maharashtra for several years, working in a Marathi film was quite a challenge.

I think that the best part of being an Indian actress is that you can be a part of so many different films in different languages.

China is the best. Since I moved there, my life has been amazing. The best time of my life. Not even close. I guess this was how it was all supposed to go down.

For me, going to markets is the best way to understand the soul of a place.

You hold everybody that's Polynesian or Samoan on your shoulders. You want to do your best to represent that in the best way that you can.

I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.

Our mantra has been, 'We will not buy a company unless we think the people that make up the company have a better job the day after the acquisition than before.'

I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.

I believe the more you come to Europe, it makes you a better player, and it gives them an advantage because the African style is different from the European style.

I had always wanted to see Europe, and what better way to see it than to spend a year there playing basketball?

There's a part of me that's very stereotypically Australian, with the lingo, or for lack of a better way of putting it, the way white Australians would speak. And then, Oh, that's not all I am.

I admit to a bias toward high culture.

I think we have cultural bias and practice some ethnocentrism when it comes to ethnic food in America.

The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.

There are so many things to do in New York. I try to get to the theater and see some plays. I have a bicycle over here, and I ride around New York.

I'm a big believer in Europe.

My dad is Chinese/Malaysian and my mum is Austrian, so food was always a big deal in our house.

I was a creative kid; I wasn't really into sports, and sports in the South are a pretty big deal. It's like a religion down there.

It's only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity.

Nudity has never been a big deal to me. I sort of grew up with a lot of it in my family.

I guess the triple-double is a big deal in the States. For me, it's not.

Playing in Europe is a big deal, it helps you to grow.

Xanarchy is like one big family... It's a brand; it's a lifestyle.