Quotes About Culture

India lives in several centuries at the same time.

The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.

Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

If you look at the history of advertising, most of them were Jews, so it was only a matter of time before 'Mad Men' explored that area of advertising.

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

Music is the voice of all humanity, of whatever time or place. In its presence, we are one.

Friends of mine that are from here or that have spent time here have told me about Israel and how warm the people are and that I should someday come here.

Many years ago making movies was something. It was the major entertainment just to go to the cinema, once, twice a week. At the time, something like 400 million people went to the movies.

English? Who needs to spend time learning that? I'm never going to England!

The UK is always ahead of their time in music, and America always follows them five years later.

Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.

I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood.

An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time

Too many of the artists of Wales spend too much time talking about the position of theartists of Wales.There is only one position for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.

Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager.

We were only there for five days and during that time Tom was a bit annoyed that the French were more interested in me and my schoolgirl outfit than him and his long scarf.

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book.